2016 Directed by Anna Biller
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, and she ends up 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.
Samantha Robinson Gian Keys Laura Waddell Jeffrey Vincent Parise Jared Sanford Robert Seeley Jennifer Ingrum Randy Evans Clive Ashborn Lily Holleman Jennifer Couch Stephen Wozniak April Showers Giselle DaMier Elle Evans Fair Micaela Griffin Dani Lennon Gina Venditti Frank Farmer Kyle Derek Alisha Honoré Christopher LeCrenn Neil Gillen Amy Segal Jacob Peacock Ron Kari Robert Michael Anderson Jacklyn Chung-Young Larva Show All…
the love witch™: "goddess, please, send me a beautiful, sweet man to love me as i love him."
me: can't relate
the love witch™: "in the end, we're all just compost anyway. everything regenerates. i'd like to come back as a cat."
me: can relate
Say hello to your new obsession: A spellbinding homage to old pulp paperbacks and the Technicolor melodramas of the 1960s, Anna Biller’s “The Love Witch” is a throwback that’s told with a degree of perverse conviction and studied expertise that would make Quentin Tarantino blush. Shot in velvety 35mm and seen through the lens of a playfully violent female gaze, the film follows a beautiful, narcissistic young sorceress named Elaine (Samantha Robinson, unforgettable in a demented breakthrough performance) as she blows into a coastal Californian town in desperate search of a replacement for her recently murdered husband. Sex, death, Satanic rituals, God-level costume design, and cinema’s greatest tampon joke ensue, as Biller spins an archly funny — but also hyper-sincere — story about the true price of the patriarchy. There hasn’t been anything quite like it in decades.
near the end there, i was ALMOST asleep because of how tired i am right now, but then she did THAT™ and i woke RIGHT the fuck up
"Some men go their entire lives without seeing a tampon"
*moments later*
Men not knowing what a tampon is.
This is a technicolor feminist masterpiece.
i know it’s the aesthetic but the people in this movie really talk like that episode of schitt’s creek where david says no one in this family can keep a secret and moira goes “isn’t 9am a little early for character assassination, david?”
i honestly dont know how i feel about anna biller after reading this (i disagree with.. a lot of what she posits... like ??? & everything after the highlighted bit reads as nonsense to me and there's a whole lot more where that came from in the post but thats just my 2c) but her sense for production design is truly unparalleled.. this movie is beautiful - the costuming, set design, lighting, casting (especially of those "handsome" imo fugly ~all-american~ white dudes who mirror the men that often show up as protags and occasionally love interests in women-centered sexploitation and horror of the era she mimics) are all perfectly evocative of 70s genre films and i think what differentiates her from…
•THIS WAS TOO DAMN LONG
•I honest to god loved the entire vibe and aesthetic SO MUCH and the production design and the costuming and the cinematography were all beyond glorious but after two hours the - forgive me - magic was truly wearing off and it cheapened the beautiful, cloying mood
•the renaissance faire gave me second hand embarrassment and hives goodbye I never want to see wooden sword fighting like that ever again
•how can u use magic as a direct allegory for homosexuality and then deny me witch lesbians ............. ripped off and pissed off!
•sigh the more I think about it the more I realise it didn't really know what it was trying to say about feminism…
this was about 30 minutes too long and the acting gave me a headache but the aesthetic is to die for
