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Season of the Witch

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Season of the Witch
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R,1hr 29min
Genres:
Drama,Action
Released:
January 1, 1973
Director:
George A. Romero
Starring:
Virginia Greenwald, Ray Laine, Joedida McClain  ...more
Synopsis: In this little-seen early film from George Romero, Jan White plays an affluent housewife able to keep her creeping disaffection at bay through therapy, friends, and a devotion to her family. When her friends catch wind that a local woman Virginia Greenwald practices witchcraft, their curiosity is piqued and they pay her a visit. For White, however, the visit has profound implications. Exploring the practice herself she finds an escape from her stifling existence -- but at a cost. ~ Keith Phipps, ... Full Synopsis
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Keith Phipps, AMG Review
A film that could only have come from the early '70s, George Romero's Season of the Witch has an Ice Storm-like quality to it, exploring the at once liberating and tragic implications of the '60s counterculture as its impact spilled belatedly into the suburbs. Explicitly and uncompromisingly feminist, it takes Jan White's bored housewife as the locus of its culture clash. Her dreams are troubled by ... Full Review
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