{"id":11655,"date":"2017-01-06T20:30:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T02:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11655"},"modified":"2017-10-29T14:51:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T19:51:18","slug":"the-love-witch-2016-anna-biller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11655","title":{"rendered":"The Love Witch (2016, Anna Biller)"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the weirder movies in theaters last year. Meticulous art design, color, makeup and costumes, with a look referencing the glory of technicolor. Once the actors showed up speaking their dialogue methodically, carefully pronouncing every syllable, I assumed it was going to be self-consciously campy along the lines of The Editor<\/a><\/em>, but I eventually got over that. I suppose it’s its own unique thing, though unlike the unique things made by Cattet & Forzani<\/a> or Peter Strickland<\/a> or Yorgos Lanthimos<\/a>, my mind stubbornly refused to ride its feminine groove.<\/p>\n

M. Sicinski’s online Cinema Scope review makes beautiful sense of all the pieces… after reading, I went from thinking “oh well, that was pretty good\/failed experiment” to desiring to watch it again soon.<\/p>\n

The Love Witch<\/em> is so exaggerated in its twin concerns \u2014 magicks and genteel, womanly behaviour \u2014 that they come to intersect imperceptibly, even when they don’t fit together at all. (Elaine’s garish, Lovecraftian self-portraits, for example, or her mad-scientist laboratory set-up, come to seem completely of-a-piece with her wide brimmed sun hats and her pinky extension in the all-women’s tearoom) … Biller’s control over her own filmic world parallels Elaine’s witchcraft in that both are pervasive and thoroughgoing … The Love Witch<\/em> does demonstrate the power that resides in matriarchal practices that are frequently scorned for their ostensible lack of seriousness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nSEPT 2017:<\/strong> Watched this again, confirmed it’s a misunderstood masterpiece.<\/p>\n

“According to the experts, men are very fragile.”<\/p>\n

Elaine has freaked out Wayne:<\/em>
\n<\/p>\n

All I learned from IMDB is that the libertine professor Wayne is on General Hospital<\/em>, Star recently played a zombie stripper, and I should probably watch Viva<\/em>, which costars Biller with this movie’s beardy warlock fellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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