The Love Witch

“The Love Witch,” a movie written, directed, and edited by Anna Biller, who is also responsible for its production design, costume design, and music.

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It has an artisanal intensity that prevents it from turning into a smug and predictable exercise in political revision.

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A sexy sorceress lures men into lethal love traps in multi-talented Anna Biller’s feminist-tinged, exquisitely designed homage to Technicolor melodrama.

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And even with all these technical accomplishments, “The Love Witch” still retains its feminist themes.

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Ms. Biller’s movie, like its heroine, presents a fascinating, perfectly composed, brightly colored surface. What’s underneath is marvelously dark, like love itself.

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The Love Witch stretches past its bounds with a running time of two hours, trying to fill the film with too much when it’s already stuffed to the gills, particularly in drawn-out pagan rituals and parties that never quite coalesce with all else; it would have made an even lighter and more pressing film at 90 minutes.

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As with giallo, The Love Witch features deliberately wooden acting, and can be a little boring at times. But it’s a stunningly photographed, fascinating reinterpretation of classic melodrama.

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The Love Witch is a seductive 60s time-capsule that calls back to the technicolor charms of early genre filmmaking.

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Biller infuses the film with such style, such elegance, such joie de vivre, that I had a smile on my face for the whole running time.

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"Viva" director Anna Biller is back mining vintage exploitation tropes with this tribute to sexy early 70s occult chillers.

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