A little technicality of not putting the disclaimer of “spiritual services”, and her business was shut down. Moreover, Bambi mentions that her family, especially the females on the mother’s side of the family, has always been spiritually sensitive, so this career path did not surprise her family as much as one would think.īambi started on e-commerce marketplace Carousell with a tarot card reading service. – Bambi Leong, founder of DarkWitchBambi and The Love Witch Being able to see spirits, and hear the otherworldly, and then using a physical system such as a pendulum to confirm everything made my over 1,000 five-star reviews to date. Like most witches and Maybelline, she was born with it.įor me, being a psychic first and foremost was what drove my success. You’d be surprised to know that Bambi did not attend The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry but instead graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the National University of Singapore. Simply put, no other modern filmmaker is doing what she’s doing-nor as intelligently.A post shared by Vulcan Post Witchcraft 101 Both are worth checking out, as her currently in-production third feature will likely be. The Love Witch is Biller’s sophomore feature she had previously made the similarly ambitious (and perhaps even more niche) Viva, a sexual revolution satire which she also starred in, and between the two films, Biller proves herself to be a true visionary. The cinematography, like our world, is stuck in the mid-century. In a way, Biller challenges the idea that we as a society have evolved significantly since the 60s and 70s and implies that sexual liberation might play into men’s desires more than women’s. In fact, many of the film’s men turn eager at the prospect of sex, but once Elaine’s desires pivot from sex to love, the men become allergic to her they’re literally incapable of love, while sex and love are intimately intertwined for Elaine. At its core, The Love Witch is a story of a woman trying to own her femininity and sexuality, but the outcomes are disastrous. As the #MeToo movement has shown, we still live in a man’s world and women bear its consequences. This parallels modern society: specifically, women’s rights may have progressed, but many of those changes are superficial.
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The movie takes place in a contemporary time, but the look is dated. Stylistic flourishes and eccentricities need to serve the story, and in this case the style definitely bolsters the themes. And that’s the key: although on initial glance it looks like an elaborate recreation of a bygone style of filmmaking, the feminist themes are decidedly modern. Perhaps the best comparisons are from the 60s and 70s-the technicolor melodramas, the softcore erotica, the psychosexual thrillers, and the giallo films of those decades-but The Love Witch boasts a sharper feminist critique than any that might come to mind. In fact, even labeling its genre as “comedy” or “horror” or “romance” is a vain attempt at boxing a truly unique film into easy-to-digest cinematic conventions. Throughout the film, Biller flirts with parody, pastiche, and homage, but to label The Love Witch as any one of those is ultimately reductive.
Thankfully, The Love Witch is as thematically deep as its color palette. The Love Witch’s appearance is perhaps what first gave the film exposure when it had its limited release in 2016, but without substance, the film would simply be a cool cinematographic experiment. The result is so effective, it’s difficult at times to wrap your mind around the fact that it was only filmed a few years ago, and only brief moments when modern cars or iPhones appear on screen break you from that illusion. David Mullen to shoot The Love Witch on 35mm stock and to recreate the look and feel of films from the 1960s. The reason? Biller enlisted period cinematography expert M. Written, directed, edited, produced, scored, costumed, and set designed-whew!-by Anna Biller, The Love Witch follows Elaine (Samantha Robinson in a gloriously affected performance), a young woman who resorts to love magic to find a man, and is perhaps one of the most ambitious films in the last. Today, we’re talking about that kind of auteur.
In film, there are auteurs and then there are auteurs, individuals with such a command over a film that it’s undoubtedly their vision and theirs alone, individuals whose work makes you wonder how the hell did they all that, individuals who make italicizing and bolding the word auteur a necessity. Starring – Samantha Robinson, Gian Keys, Laura Waddell, Jeffrey Vincent Parise
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