Viva Anna Biller's filmmaking

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Biller plays Barbie, aka Viva, a faithful wife drawn by a more audacious friend into the world of nudist camps, bisexuality, orgies and genteel prostitution. Eventually, she is ready to resume married life without the assistance of Playboy, hippies, drink and drugs.

At first you think the film is so bad that someone must have made an awful mistake financing it. But then you realise that Biller has got everything right, from the wooden acting and unbelievably dreadful screenplay to the garishly appropriate décor, colour and costumes.

Alas, she appears to make no comment about the early Seventies era or the pseudo-titillating
B-movies it inspired. Reported parallels with the Marquis de Sade’s Justine just don’t wash. It’s more like Russ Meyer, except the jugs on view aren’t as big.

Viva
Cert: 18