You can't create camp on purpose.
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10/18/08
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Viva (2008)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:6
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Though it's lengthy and doesn't always walk the line between schlock and kitschy homage successfully, Viva's lovely visuals and knowing humor are undeniable.
Theatrical Release:May 2, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: VIVA is about a bored housewife in 1972 who gets sucked into the sexual revolution. Abandoned by her husband, Barbi is dragged into trouble by her girlfriend, who spouts women's lib as she gets... [More]
Starring: Anna Biller, Jared Sanford, Bridget Brno, Chad England
Director: Anna Biller
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Top CriticThe movie isn’t comfortable or wholly successful.
10/18/08
Top CriticWith its copious nudity and zipless hedonism, Viva, though unduly long, is a crafty reminder of a time when the X rating was flaunted, not feared.
06/20/08
Top CriticIt takes skill -- a certain sly, even perverse nimbleness of craft -- to make an homage to schlock movies that treats them as works of art. Viva, written and directed by its star, Anna Biller, could just about be the third featurette in Grindhouse.
05/19/08
Top CriticThe movie pops with parodic joy--in the hoary double-entendres and presentational acting styles--and hotly lighted 35-millimeter cinematography that evokes lounge music album covers and Playboy ads.
05/08/08
Top CriticThe campy early '70s is the goofy gift that keeps on giving in Viva, a mock soft-core sexploitation film that gets a lot right but forgets that less is often more, especially in plaid.
05/02/08
Top CriticA startlingly pitch-perfect reproduction of the kind of gauzy sex movies from the 1960s and early 1970s that preceded the hard-core revolution.
05/02/08
Top CriticFor fans of the work of Charles Busch and other like-minded spoofs only.
04/30/08
Top CriticFaithful to those cult-adored obscurities in nearly every detail, including their soporific pace. Here, however, sly in-jokes come often enough to make said pacing funny in itself.
03/07/08
Top CriticIts triumph is that of style -- gloriously and revoltingly tacky style -- over substance.
03/07/08
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