About this Event
The JRFF is proud to Richmond premiere Anna Biller’s The Love Witch—Cindy Sherman meets David Lynch meets Liquid Sky. One of the most intriguing indies ever! Here’s Brent Baldwin’s (Style Weekly) reflections... I can’t remember how I first learned about Anna Biller’s fantasy-horror-comedy “The Love Witch”, but I remember being immediately spellbound by the trailer’s bright, hard-lit colors (think Technicolor meets Italian “giallo”) and the campy, B-movie plot featuring a femme fatale in a red convertible mustang wanted for homicide. A true L.A. auteur, Biller does everything here: writing, directing, editing, even production designing the 35 mm film, which received a limited release in 2016. Check out her website and you’ll see that Biller has a deep knowledge of film theory, art criticism, and 1930s glamour films: “The Love Witch” was not meant as genre pastiche, she writes, but rather “pure cinema or ‘proper art’ (which James Joyce defines as art which elicits a state of aesthetic arrest.)” Her second feature stars Samantha Robinson as Elaine Parks, a seductive brunette with dark, steely eyes and a penchant for making men whimper and weep before dropping dead from her psychedelic love potions. No simple parody, “The Love Witch” is a sly feminist film that explores the “sexy witch” stereotype from the inside, embracing a (sociopathic) female gaze while brimming with ideas about how women negotiate gender politics and heartbreak. You’ll laugh, you’ll think, you’ll want to know when Anna Biller’s next movie is coming out.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Studio Two Three, 109 West 15th Street, Richmond, United States
USD 8.00
