From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. Well, if you took what looks like a very pleasant, fetishized package, but actually the undercurrents are Pasolini, Bresson, and Dreyer.

That's what my guest writer-director and sometimes actress Annabelle does with her films.

She starred in the film, which she also wrote and directed and designed and did the costumes for Viva.

Her newest film is writer-director, which is now on home video.

Please see it.

It is The Love Witch.

First of all, thanks so much for being here.

Thank you.

And when I saw The Love Witch, I couldn't help but think about the passion of Joan of Arc.

And the trials of Joan of Arc.

I mean, it seemed to be pitched somewhere between those two movies with, of course, the visual aesthetic of Douglas Cirque.

That's such so great that you say that because in interviews, I'm always talking about how influenced I've been by Carl Dreyer,

and everybody always seems incredibly shocked, like as if they don't believe me.

The Dreyer film that most inspired The Love Witch was actually Gertrude. And because it's

very similar themes. It's a woman who is actually spiritually superior to her suitors. So they're

unable to love. No matter how much, you know, they get, they get love potions and, you know,

everything, you know, sexually excited by her and everything.

They just can't, they don't have the capacity to love the way she does.

So this is actually that Gertrude was the first root of inspiration for making this movie.

It's also very inspired by Dave Rath and also by Passion of Joan of Arc.

But you're actually the very first person who's seen that in the film.

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