Viva R

They were housewives seeking kicks, in a world of swingers, orgies, booze and sin.
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: February 24, 2009
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Cult Epics

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 341
Rating: 2/5 -- It's the sort of attention to detail that would be admirable in a short film. But in a film that plays out at two hours it's unendurable. Paying ironic homage to bad cinema doesn't suddenly make it good. Full Review
Times (UK)
May 15, 2009
Rating: 2/5 -- 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. Full Review
London Evening Standard
May 16, 2009
Rating: 4/5 -- The acting is as subtly, drolly bad as it needs to be. The hairpieces and cheesy background muzak compete for the honour of perfect finishing touch. At two hours Viva is a mite too long. But summer is here: give genius its leash. Full Review
Financial Times
May 15, 2009
Rating: 3/5 -- At an epic two hours the stilted dialogue and eye-scorchingly oversaturated film stock threaten to test the patience. But as a self-conscious exercise in kitsch graverobbing, 'Viva' succeeds. Full Review
Time Out
May 15, 2009
Fans of 70s sexploitation films will feel as though they've stepped into a time warp as they observe the impressive production design. Full Review
NYC Movie Guru
Mar 30, 2016
Anna Biller's 1970s-styled sexploitation parody Viva may at times come too close to the real thing, but there's a welcome delight in the film's unapologetic and total submersion into cheap thrills. Full Review
L.A. Weekly
Mar 30, 2016
It's a lovingly re-created, almost fetishistically spot-on tribute to the candy-colored soft-core sexploitation films that sprouted up like weeks in the late '60s and early '70s. -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
May 23, 2008

Product Description:

This ode to 1970s sexploitation films stars writer, director, and producer (not to mention costume designer) Anna Biller as a repressed housewife who gets sucked into the sexual revolution. But will she find what she's looking for' A playful, color-soaked comedy, VIVA has a serious side to be found among the orgies, campy humor, and musical numbers.

Description by Ryko Distribution:

With a plot stripped from a 1969 letter to Penthouse Magazine, Viva tells the story of Barbi, a na ve housewife who sets out to discover the seedy underbelly of the sexual revolution. With her best friend Sheila in tow, she encounters everything from prowling cougars, grandmotherly brothel madams and lesbian supermodels to full-blown orgies. Toss in a gay hairdresser, a funk-gasmic soundtrack and some surreal animated and musical sequences and you ve got one smoking hot slice of nouveau cult cinema. Biller's truly amazing accomplishment in Viva comes courtesy of her uncannily authentic design. It doesn t emulate the spirit of those swinging times, it's possessed by them. Just one whiff of the cheap cologne, one glance at the rugged polyester, and you ll have to submit to this killer escapade. Fab Magazine

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  • UPC: 881190007891
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