PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Anna Biller, director of the film The Love Witch.
Anna Biller knows cinema, she fed on classics from both America and Europe and all those influences are there, some more visible than others , in this vintage-like movie. The visual result is astounding: Biller tells us how she and her d.o.p. managed to give us some Technicolor feel even today. Her rendition of femininity and feminism, through the lead character, does the rest to make the movie a peculiar must-see.
The Love Witch: California, the 1960s. When beautiful Elaine, who calls herself a love witch, is widowed under mysterious circumstances, she decides to move from San Francisco to a small town where magic and orgiastic rites are tolerated. Here, through potions and spells, she can begin her search for the ideal man. Often with bloody consequences…