Yarner House, a Grade II-listed property with seven bedrooms, sits in a 247-acre estate on the edge of Dartmoor National Park and has stunning views over the surrounding landscape.
Written and Directed by Anna Biller
Starring Samantha Robinson, Elle Evans, Jeffrey Vincent Praise, Lily Holleman, Dani Lennon, Laura Waddell, Stephen Wozniak, Jennifer Ingrum, Gian Keys
SYNOPSIS:
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, in a tribute to 1960s pulp novels and Technicolor melodramas.
Your appreciation of
The Love Witch will all depend on how much you can get into Anna Biller’s style. Its story, character and script are one thing, but Biller’s vision is something else. In this love letter to 60s pulp novels and technicolour melodramas,
The Love Witch genuinely feels like it has been kept in a time capsule fifty years ago only to be rediscovered here in 2016.
How does one connect the dots among the century-old Los Angeles Breakfast Club, Washington, DC, an unauthorized house demolition in Knoxville, Tennessee, an untimely death in Chicago, and Mary Ann Kuhnâs Middleton Inn in the town of Washington?
Ruthie Windsor-Mann, left, holding Lily Holleman and Betsy Christenberry Holleman Burke holding Windsor Mann. Photo by Betty Christenberry
In the late nineties, Washingtonian Betsy Christenberry Holleman received word that her 63-year-old husband, Vernon, had unexpectedly died while on a business trip in Chicago. During the periods of sadness and grief, the mother of three children made many attempts to find solace.Â