{"id":13115,"date":"2019-08-26T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13115"},"modified":"2019-08-24T16:16:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T20:16:55","slug":"viva-2007-anna-biller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13115","title":{"rendered":"Viva (2007, Anna Biller)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the convenience and the selection of the Criterion Channel&#8230; and the quality, and the extras, but it&#8217;s tough to take screenshots, which ruins my blog flow.  This was presented with Biller&#8217;s <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11655\">The Love Witch<\/a><\/em>, which I was sorely tempted to watch a third time, but thought I&#8217;d better check out her debut while it&#8217;s online.  Set in the early 1970s, it&#8217;s more campy than <em>Love Witch<\/em>, with self consciously horrible dialogue, shot like a cross between a sitcom and an advertisement.  These aren&#8217;t complaints necessarily.  Of the actors, I only recognized Sheila&#8217;s horrible husband Mark, who led the ren-fest scene in <em>Love Witch<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Anna plays Barbi, whose husband Rick leaves her for weeks at a time.  Anna and her friend Sheila decide home life is dull, so they sneak off to a modeling agency and get jobs as call girls.  Anna as &#8220;Viva&#8221; meets a nudist musician, a hot girl named Agnes, and a big-deal artist&#8230; stars in a few musical numbers and a psychedelic animated fantasy.  On one hand, as Viva she becomes a glorious sex goddess, but still everyone she meets is abusing her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the convenience and the selection of the Criterion Channel&#8230; and the quality, and the extras, but it&#8217;s tough to take screenshots, which ruins my blog flow. This was presented with Biller&#8217;s The Love Witch, which I was sorely tempted to watch a third time, but thought I&#8217;d better check out her debut while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,369,2187,424],"class_list":["post-13115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-2000s","tag-anna-biller","tag-nudity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13131,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13115\/revisions\/13131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}