
It’s still a ways off, but writer-director Anna Biller’s scrupulously fashion-detailed 2007 retro-sexploitation camp-fest Viva screens March 3 at 8 p.m. at the Silent Movie Theatre (611 N. Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles), as part of Cinefamily’s programming. Fab Magazine describes the movie thusly: “With a plot stripped from a 1969 letter to Penthouse, Viva tells the story of Barbi (Biller again), a naïve housewife who sets out to discover the seedy underbelly of the sexual revolution. With her best friend Sheila (Bridget Brno) in tow, she encounters everything from prowling cougars, grandmotherly brothel madams and lesbian supermodels to full-blown orgies. Toss in a gay hairdresser, a funk-gasmic soundtrack and some surreal animated and musical sequences and you’ve got one smoking hot slice of nouveau cult cinema. Biller’s truly amazing accomplishment in Viva comes courtesy of her uncannily authentic design. It doesn’t emulate the spirit of those swinging times, it’s possessed by them. Just one whiff of the cheap cologne, one glance at the rugged polyester, and you’ll have to submit to this killer escapade.”
Multi-hyphenate Biller will be at the Cinefamily event for an in-person, post-screening Q&A session; tickets are $12. For more information on the movie, click here; to check out its trailer, click here. For Cinefamily’s February calendar, meanwhile, click here.