The Love Witch

The Love Witch is an incredible movie, one of the best of the last two decades at least. Anna Biller's first feature film Viva was its precursor and already a great first attempt at conveying the idea of art in cinema. With The Love Witch, Biller achieves that goal and surpasses all expectations. It is an amazing technical feat, even more so when you realise that she herself had a literal hand in all the aspects of her film; the art, designs, sets, props, costumes as well as obviously writing and directing.

This time and unlike Viva, she doesn't act in the main role and cedes that position to Samantha Robinson, who is stellar. Her performance echoes the ones from the industry's greatest. She is charm and presence incarnate.

To viewers who didn't understand the acting at times, let me tell you this: think theater on a reel and not method acting. I personally never once thought the acting was weird or bad or whichever derogatory argument. It is just great and works as a stunning aesthetic device in the film, like all its other aspects do and are; from the incredible use of colours, to the mystifying music.

The Love Witch is a technical and artistic triumph. It is the definition of an aesthetic movie with depth and character, and if this does not fit the idea of cinema as art, I don't know what does.

a captivating soft-core horror dream!!

Right up my alley, loved it! -1 star for her littering on that park bench

Why did I even love this film?

humans too wrong. but time can heal all. not anyone's fault, that's destiny

**A much better watch the second time through.**

Goes on a little too long, but for the most part, this is an affectionate pastiche of the technicolor nightmares of old. Odd, beguiling, hypnotic.

Quite a genuine and affectionate throwback, yet it's not quite as "stirring" or funny as I was lead to believe, nor does it have the horror elements the genre was known for. The visuals are impressive though, as the 70s aesthetic is captured lovingly.

I could do without that entire renaissance scene.

_The Love Witch_ is like a 50s jock strap: I appreciated the retro feel but the rest let me down.