This devotion is a conversion – in theory, at least – of sex into love, but Elaine doesn’t quite account for the fact that the men around her (and, by the film’s troubling logic, perhaps all men) are incapable of surviving the experience of such strong emotion.
Erin Harrington digs deep into what we can take away from The Love Witch's very deliberate, very distinctive - but supposedly very misunderstood - aesthetic and values.Īnna Biller’s retro, occult melodrama The Love Witch follows the murderous exploits of the titular love-lorn witch, Elaine, as she constructs herself as men’s ultimate fantasy in the hope that they might repay her with their unending devotion.
