The Love Witch

I had a feeling this would be my kind of movie, after all people were saying it was like Lana del Rey + witches so I was interested and wasn't actually happy with it, I get why people say the stuff and kinda agree but this isn't what I expected. The film has great moments, many of them, but some not so great stuff overshadowed them for me.

The Love Witch has a great look and an unique vibe; very goofy but the various **** make up for it

The only thing that makes the movie good, which uses pretense as per its style, is its leading lady, Samantha Robinson. If it had been half an hour shorter, it could have been a more sedate movie.

An aesthetic wet-dream with an irresistibly seductive leading lady, The Love Witch may well be, but in dramatic terms it's a grinding bore. Full credit to writer-director-designer Anna Biller for owning absolute control of her feature debut, which one can easily believe was pre-conceived within an inch of it's life, but for all the fetishistic swoon factor of faithfully relocating mid-'60s style and mood into a nominally contemporary setting, she can't (yet) dramatize or properly edit a scene to save herself. As a result, it goes on forever, while the tongue-in-cheek attitude is so unbearably arch it leaves the actors stranded in a joking-but-not-joking limbo. There are a few good laughs, especially in an early sequence where our titular spellbinder goes home with her first conquest, but not enough. And, even making allowances for "subversion of genre", horror-fans will find it irredeemably fright-free.

Homage to b movies? More like fromage. Poor editing. Thin story line. Bad acting. Can't believe so many people had this supposedly feminist wool pulled over their eyes. The times we live in. Sigh.