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VIVA - Chicago Underground Film Festival
Chopin Theater
Chicago, IL
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VIVA - Chicago Underground Film Festival
VIVA  

Anna Biller 35mm 120:00 2006 Chicago Premiere

Its 1972. Barbi is a sexy suburban housewife, with a great husband and a lovely home, but despite swinging cocktail parties and her husband Ricks Friday night loving, Barbi feels bored and unfulfilled. Craving Ricks love, she tries to be a perfect wife, and never lets him know she is unhappy.

But the tension mounts, and after a terrible fight, Rick walks out in anger. Barbi calls her girlfriend Sheila for advice. Spouting womens lib, Sheila drags Barbi to the city to explore her new sexual freedom. Barbi meets a free-loving hippie at a nudist camp, a glam British photographer named Clyde, and a group of immoral artists and bohemians. Barbi becomes decadent, is pursued and used by libertines, and becomes the fetishized centerpiece of a wild orgy.

Filled with great musical numbers, evocative period set pieces, a Technicolor palette, spot-on performances, innocent nudity, and an absurd sense of humor that lets it all hang out; VIVA is both a scathing commentary and a stylish tribute to the Playboy-era sexual revolution and its symbols.

"Biller takes inspiration not just from Z-grade pics of her favorite era, but also from its Playboy magazine aesthetic and TV cologne/liquor commercials. Her production design is a triumph of dedicated thrift-shop acquisition, with decor as much as drop-dead costumes amplifying the cheesiest aspects of early 70s flamboyance." - Variety

Location

Chopin Theater
1543 W. Division
Chicago, IL 60622
United States

Categories

Film

Kid Friendly: No
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: No
Wheelchair Accessible: No

Contact

Owner: Chicago Underground Film Festival
On BPT Since: Jul 19, 2007
 
www.cuff.org


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