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The Love Witch
Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However, her spells work too well, leaving her with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.
With a visual style that pays tribute to Technicolor thrillers of the 60s, THE LOVE WITCH explores female fantasy and the repercussions of pathological narcissism.
"Its exhilarating and inspiring when a work of art comes along that defies all categories and upends expectations. Thats The Love Witch, an entrancing, emotional, intelligent and challenging picture thats much more than the retro rumination some have pegged it as. The suggestion that it feels like the work of the great granddaughter of Russ Meyer is too easy to slap on this picture. Theres a deeper, darker undercurrent lacing every moment, and its uniquely its own creature." Kim Morgan, Sight & Sound
Extravagantly fulfills the filmmakers intention to create visual pleasure for women. - Steve Dollar, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
"Biller shot it, ravishingly, on 35mm and furnished every frame with uncanny precision; the result really could pass as a relic of the era. That it's quite funny and charming seems almost beside the point." - Calum Marsh, THE VILLAGE VOICE
"Sex, death, Satanic rituals, God-level costume design, and cinemas greatest tampon joke ensue, as Biller spins an arch but hyper-sincere story about the true price of patriarchy. A spellbinding homage to old pulp paperbacks and the Technicolor melodramas of the 1960s, Anna Billers THE LOVE WITCH is a throwback thats told with the kind of perverse conviction and studied expertise that would make Quentin Tarantino blush." - David Ehrlich, INDIEWIRE
"At once hilarious and grotesque, with awe-inspiring costume and set designs that hark back to such low-budget curiosities as Hammer horror movies and the erotic cinema of Radley Metzger, Billers vision is less nostalgic throwback than genre-recalibration, putting a woman in a position of power as a perpetrator of violence against men." - Craig Hubert, ART INFO
A metaphysical astonishment. The costumes and furnishings, Billers own handmade versions of the eras candy-coated extravagances, are as exquisitely arch and theatrical as the performances and the action, whichfor all their comic exaggerationecho with an uncanny symbolic power. - Richard Brody, THE NEW YORKER
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LocationSuns Cinema (View)
3107 Mount Pleasant Street NW
Washington, DC 20010
United States
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