REVIEW: The Love Witch [2016]

“All it is is using your will to get what you want” It’s an ingenious aesthetic premise: to create new cinematic pursuits showcasing women as the empowered gender—a stark contrast to most Hollywood fare—by utilizing the old Technicolor look, feel, and tone of artifice. Writer/director Anna Biller in effect embraces the synthetic properties of her medium as a mirror reflecting the synthetic properties of life itself. We all play a role in the real world, everyone becoming what he/she needs to become in order to move ahead and achieve established…

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