Fri August 27, 2021 10:00 PM ETHERIA PRESENTS: VIVA $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Ticket prices for paid events include a $2.00 online booking fee. Booking fees do not apply to free RSVP events. Los Feliz 3 | Q&A before film with filmmaker Anna Biller, moderated by Etheria founder Heidi Honeycutt Your RSVP is being held for 1 minute, please select the quantity and fill out your contact info to complete the RSVP First Name Last Name Email Quantity Subscribe to our newsletter FINISH
ABOUT THE FILM 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. VIVA is a highly stylized film that draws on classic exploitation cinema and vintage Playboy magazines for its look and characters. 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. Whether you’re looking for naked people dancing, alcoholic swingers, stylish sex scenes, a sea of polyester, Hammond organ jams, glitzy show numbers, white horses, blondes in the bathtub, gay hairdressers, or psychedelic animation, VIVA has it all! Originally released in 2007, Kino Lorber is releasing a new blu-ray on August 24, 2021 with a new audio commentary by Anna Biller and a new behind-the-scenes documentary. FORMAT: 35mm DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber VIEW SERIES