Blu-ray Release: Viva

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Laurence
– August 17, 2021Find Others: Blu-ray, Movie, New Release, NewsGet More: , , , ,

Blu-ray Release Date: Aug. 24, 2021
Price: Blu-ray $19.98
Studio: Kino Lorber

The 2007 comedy-drama-musical Viva is a cult retro spectacle about a bored 1970s housewife who gets sucked into the sexual revolution.

Abandoned by her perfect Ken-doll husband, Barbi (writer/director Anna Biller, The Love Witch) is dragged into trouble by her girlfriend, who spouts women’s lib as she gets Barbi to discard her bra and go out on the town. Barbi becomes a Red Riding Hood in a sea of wolves, and quickly learns a lot more than she wanted to about the different kinds of scenes going on in the wild ’70s, including nudist camps, the hippie scene, orgies, bisexuality, sadism, drugs, and bohemia.

Saturated to the hilt with vibrant color, and exquisitely detailed in its depiction of the period, Viva looks like a lost film from 1972, even down to the campy and self-assured performances, the big lighting, the plethora of negligées, and the delirious assortment of Salvation Army ashtrays, lamps, fabrics, and bric-a-brac. And let’s not forget the alcoholic swingers, stylish sex scenes, Hammond organ jams, glitzy show numbers, gay hairdressers and psychedelic animation.

Special Features:
-New audio commentary by writer/director/star Anna Biller
-Behind-the-scenes footage narrated by Anna Biller
-Trailer

Buy or Rent Viva

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.