Country: USA
Year: 2006
Duration: 120'
A suburban housewife in 1972 is abandoned by her husband, and goes out to find herself in the middle of the swinging sexual revolution. Looking for love and adventure, with her friend Sheila, she is dragged through the worlds of nudis colonies, hippies, modelling, prostitution, bisexuality and bohemia becoming a “Candide” of 1970’s and finding liberation along the way. “I am reworking old sexploitation movies from the 1960s and early 1970s, from a woman’s point of view. Vintage sexploitation movies interest me because they revolve around fantasies of a woman’s power over the male, her beauty, her desiderability, her sex appeal. The idea was to make a movie that seems like a sexploitation movie, and that offers up all the spectacle and lurid promise of that genre, while at the same time talking about what women really go through, their fantasies and sexual trials.”
Biography
film director
Anna Biller
Anna Biller has directed musical plays such as Princess Butterfly (2001) and The Lady Cat (1995) and has completed a number of short and middle-length films, such as Three Examples of Myself as Queen (1994), Fairy Ballet (1998), The Lady Cat ( 2001), The Hypnotist (2001) and the acclaimed horror-western short A Visit from the Incubus (2001). She is known for her use of film genres, humour, the burlesque and visual excess of her films, and for her colourful stylized sets and costumes, which she creates herself. She has a BA in art from UCLA and an MFA in art and film from CalArts. In 2006 she directed her first feature film, Viva, shown at Torino Film Festival together with a selection of other works from her filmography.
FILMOGRAFIA
Three Examples of Myself as Queen (cm, 1994), Fairy Ballet (cm, 1998), The Lady Cat (cm, 2001), A Visit from the Incubus (cm, 2001), The Hypnotist (mm, 2001), Viva (2006), The Love Witch (2016).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, scenografia, costumi, montaggio, produttore/director, story, screenplay, set design, costume design, film editor, producer Anna Biller
fotografia/director of photography C. Thomas Lewis
suono/sound Karl Lohninger, Iris Lohninger
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Anna Biller (Barbi-Viva), Jared Sanford (Mark), Bridget Brno (Sheila), Marcus DeAnda (Clyde), John Klemantaski (Arthur), Barry Morse (Sherman), Paolo Davanza (Elmer), Cole Chipman (Reeves)
produzione, distribuzione, vendita all’estero/production, distribution, world sales Anna Biller Productions
coproduttore/coproducer Jared Sanford
fotografia/director of photography C. Thomas Lewis
suono/sound Karl Lohninger, Iris Lohninger
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Anna Biller (Barbi-Viva), Jared Sanford (Mark), Bridget Brno (Sheila), Marcus DeAnda (Clyde), John Klemantaski (Arthur), Barry Morse (Sherman), Paolo Davanza (Elmer), Cole Chipman (Reeves)
produzione, distribuzione, vendita all’estero/production, distribution, world sales Anna Biller Productions
coproduttore/coproducer Jared Sanford
