Pure cinematic pleasure

Elaine comes driving along the California coastline, her cat-eye eyeliner perfect and her goal clear: she wants love, and she’ll do anything to get it. This is The Love Witch, a glorious technicolor dream of a movie from writer-director-producer-production designer Anna Biller. Here is a film that is so meticulously constructed to resemble a 1960s Euro-thriller that you’ll be startled when a very modern looking police car suddenly pulls Elaine over to the side of the road. The Love Witch is set in a kind of in-between time, where the costumes and attitudes invoke the 60s while little esoteric details hint at something much more modern. It’s all part of Biller’s sweet candy colored fantasy: a film that’s a wild, funny, twisted breath of fresh air, referential while also being unlike anything you’ve ever laid eyes on: http://www.cutprintfilm.com/reviews/fantasia-2016-love-witch/