the demented genius behind a visit from the incubus strike again . seriously and though and what be viva . caught this about seven month ago and be still try to take it all in . i love this film because i never know what be go to happen next and despite it follow the model of 60 /70 sexploitation film pretty closely . the first few minute be simply exhilarate . a young housewife leaf through a skin mag in her bathtub and get herself ready for the outside world and and blast off in some bad as muscle car and just a the wonderful piece of vintage loungecore music on the soundtrack reach a crescendo . ( at least that how i remember it . ) sublime while i be at a loss to think of a good opening scene . ( touch of evil and studio cut and perhaps . it too close to call . ) then we settle in for the long haul . the housewife be hang out with her friend and a married couple . thing get inappropriate . how far will it go . exactly what kind of a movie be this . that really the question that viva dare the viewer to answer . i be still not sure . satire or pornography . happily and the answer be yes . the film be two hour . that would be hard to justify if it be just a slavish imitation of vintage softcore porn . or just a spoof of same . instead and it almost a suspense film . how long have it be since an american film have me wonder who among the cast be go to disrobe . who be go to disrobe next . who will have sex next . will it even be consensual . all those people constantly cruise each other . predatory . with the color soak visual panache of radley metzger in eastmancolor and but with a storyline from a joe sarno film where everyone think and talk about sex all the time and have weird and anonymous and mask sex all the time and and never enjoy it . almost exactly like the adult world seem to me in 1972. plus deadly serious feminist self reflexivity for the unwashed mass and nude dancer with their wiener bob hilariously for intellectual like myself and courtesy of a nudist camp scene that be exactly like blake edward would have do it in a shot in the dark and if hollywood censorship have already relax and and he be on angel dust . and all the while and the deliciously arch jar sanford do his best to act dozen of naked people off the screen . two hour be barely enough . bring on the 70mm imax release and the three disc dvd special edition with the sign and number lithograph and and the vote for viva t shirt in every trendy mall novelty store .