Jared Sanford, Bridget Brno
This periodically hilarious feminist revision of seventies sexploitation movies frustrates expectations of raunchy parody. Viva spreads itself thin as creator and star Biller’s suburban housewife covers a checklist of generic conventions (modeling, sex work, nudists, hippies, orgies, etc). If the narrative is demanding, the colorful awesomeness and ultra-tackiness of the set, costume and make-up design provide constant gratification. Better for an art gallery than a movie theater, Viva restores honest sexual politics to a genre that frequently masqueraded misogynist blackmailing as sexual liberation. (NR,
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