The Love Witch (2016) (2017)

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" A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, in a tribute to 1960s pulp novels and Technicolor melodramas. "

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"October 24th Directed by: Anna Biller Downloaded."

Watched in 2020 (284 movies items)

"22.2. Selvästi täysin omanlaistaan elokuvaa tekevän ja about kaikesta mahdollisesta tunnuskappaleen säveltämisestä seinillä nähtävien taulujen maalaamiseen vastanneen Anna Billerin tuotoksessa noituutta harjoittava nuori nainen saa miehet kuolemaan ympäriltään. Taikuusjuoni on hellyyttävää hömppää, jonka alta paljastuu elokuvan visuaaliselle ilmeelle hieman yllätyksellinenkin feministinen sanoma epärealistisista odotuksista kumppanin etsinnässä. Visuaalinen tyyli muistutt"

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The Love Witch

“The melodrama of 50s and 60s cinema gets shoved through Anna Biller’s unhinged prism in the delightful The Love Witch. There’s a little bit of Jacques Demy’s candy-colored musicals here, the repressed sexuality of Vincente Minnelli there, and all of it is run through her distinctly feminist and hyperfeminine perspective. She finds a way to combine the sexual neurosis of the Technicolor era with a modern-day sensibility, essentially finding ways to merge the profanity of today with the restrictions of yesterday.   The Love Witch still finds Biller in dire need of an editor to keep her pacing from wandering around too much, but her focus is more narrowed here. We largely follow the exploits of our title character, Elaine (Samantha Robinson, finding the perfect balance between stiff ” read more