A genre-stretching horror melodrama crafted with extraordinary detail and style. A touch languid, it’s also mesmerising, provocative, unsettling and sensual.
Ingenious comedy horror from Anna Biller that celebrates and satirises 60s cinema.
As enjoyable on a purely aesthetic level and as a feminist text, this film will be cherished for years to come.
Even in the film’s most far-fetched moments, Biller has trenchant points to make about conservative, middle-class America’s fear of female sexuality and the double standards that apply to men and women’s romantic behaviour.
Biller delivers wry comment on the objectification of women in a film that’s as smart as it is sumptuous.
Drenched in the Technicolor 60s, Anna Biller’s outrageous, showstopping B-movie oozes with A-grade potency.
Anna Biller captures the colours, style and mores of the lurid 70s in this near-perfect pastiche.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Monday March 20, 2017, until Thursday March 23, 2017. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/
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