Viva

"A waggish conceptual venture, Viva is a startlingly pitch-perfect reproduction of the kind of gauzy sex movies from the 1960s and early part of 1970s that preceded the hard-core revolution," writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. "Despite the parallels with Sade''s Justine and the occasional lurid flourish, the depravity never becomes remotely depraved because [writer-director Anna] Biller, despite her commitment to verisimilitude, maintains an ironic detachment throughout - because she''s a Brechtian or a bad actress, or perhaps both."

For Vadim Rizov, writing in the Voice, "Viva does for late-60s/early-70s sexploitation what Far From Heaven did for Douglas Sirk, only without the subversion". Posted by: dwhudson    Source