What to Watch this Week: 6-12 March

The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including The Love Witch, Elle and the second series of Netflix's Love

Article by The Skinny | 06 Mar 2017

The Love Witch

A ravishing retro throwback riffing on the sexploitation cycle of the 1970s, but with a wild and hilarious feminist spin. The Love Witch follows a nymphomaniacal young sorceress who uses her supernatural powers to seduce men – and when they disappoint her between the sheets she turns to murder.

The intimidatingly talented Anna Biller not only wrote and directed the film, but designed the costumes, wrote the music and worked on the fastidiously detailed production design, which combined with the beautiful 35mm cinematography and in-camera special effects creates a vivid period film that’s revealed to not be a period film at all. Read our full review from 2016's Edinburgh Film Festival here.

In cinemas from 10 Mar

Elle

We’re over the moon to see Paul Verhoeven back in the director’s saddle, and the master provocateur finds an actor to match his perverse sense of humour in Isabelle Huppert, who’s as statuesque and badass as ever in this challenging comic thriller about a rape victim who refuses to be labeled as such. Read our full review | Read our interview with Paul Verhoeven.

In cinemas from 10 Mar

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

Showing across the country, this mesmerising concert film from documentary-maker DA Pennebaker captures the infamous David Bowie concert from 1973 where Ziggy Stardust parted ways with his band the Spiders from Mars. "I love the film because it's so off-the-cuff," Pennebaker told the Guardian. "We didn't have a lot of cameras. We hardly showed the band. It's a very sexy film, and nobody knows why; he's just standing there singing. But I liked that idea: one man, one concert." Unmissable on the big screen.

Screening 7 Mar – here's a list of cinemas screening Ziggy Stardust an the Spiders from Mars this Tuesday.

Love: Season 2

The easy-going comedy following the unlikely friendship between charismatic, alcoholic mess Mickey (Gillian Jacobs), and high-strung nerd Gus (Paul Rust), returns. Expect more awkward comedy as we follow the quotidian lifestyles of urban white people who are filled with selfish, cringe-inducing tendencies.

One thing that might improve on series one would be more screen time for the hilarious Claudia O'Doherty, who plays Mickey’s perpetually sunny Aussie roommate. She was a hilarious and much needed breath of fresh air whenever she appeared on screen in series one.    

Streaming on Netflix from 10 Mar

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