Her first husband, Jerry (Stephen Wozniak), dumped her - or, rather, an earlier version of her who was 40 pounds heavier and far lazier about cleaning the house and brushing her hair.

She doesn't enjoy stroking their hair and cooing 'Poor, poor baby' she does it because she wants to be loved back. No man can resist the perfect female fantasy - and she certainly is a fantasy. Other times - say, at an occult bonfire - the look is pure hell.Д®laine is a witch, but her power comes from looking like Miss Universe. Sometimes a white glow floods the screen, backlighting the actors like they're in heaven. Elaine's lair is all rich purples and blues her favorite lunch spot, a ladies-only tea room, is all pastels, the kind of cloister where women unironically wear flower crowns. Everything is saturated, especially femininity. Biller has borrowed the movie's look from '60s melodramas like Valley of the Dolls (and its nudity from Russ Meyer's semi-sequel Beyond the Valley of the Dolls). Biller and Robinson tap into that stilted soap-opera speech, a way of talking in which everyone sounds like they're lying - often because they are. The Love Witch, by writer/director Anna Biller, is a feminist film about a character who thinks feminism is bad news. And her actions prove that she knows her place: She strokes their egos, makes them dinner, and, for dessert, does a striptease.

This bombshell in chiffon and retro eyeliner looks like she's stepped out of that fading time when men were men, women were women, and everyone knew who was in the next bathroom stall. Once she locks eyes with a target, he's under her spell before she drugs him with love potions. When she drives, she never has to fear the cops they are dumbstruck by her glossy pink lips. When she walks down the street, men stop and leer. Elaine (a magical Samantha Robinson) is Tic TacвЂ“poppingly beautiful: voluptuous body, good legs, hair down to her wherever. Her name is Elaine and she dominates an entire town of rural white men.

The love witch