Directed by Ulli Lommel β , he originally made a name for himself as as an actor working with the likes of Fassbinder and Andy Warhol, before transitioning to working behind the camera as well.
Olivia stars his wife and DuPont heiress Suzanna Love yup, her real name and was a blind watch for me, based simply on the gorgeously hand painted cover art of the disc and blurb on the back promising a woman out for revenge after witnessing the death of her prostitute mother. Olivia, is the story of a young girl who lived in an apartment overlooking the London Bridge where her loving mother worked nights as a prostitute. After witnessing her violent death at the hands an angry John, we then jump 15 years into the future with Olivia Suzanna Love trapped in a marriage with an abusive and controlling night shift factory worker.
As Olivia celebrates her birthday alone she hears the voice of her mother, calling to her, urging her to go out and work under the bridge where she worked and get revenge for her. Olivia kills one guy in an odd Maniac homage and then falls in love with her next would-be victim, American engineer Michael Grant Robert Walker Jr.
Now we are in sunny Lake Havasu City, Arizona. I read that Ulli Lommel and Suzanna Love discovered the bridge while preparing for Boogeyman II , which inspired him to craft a story using the relocated bridge as a plot device. Marsh, cinematographer Jon Kranhouse, and editor Terrell Tannen. What keeps coming up is how DIY this production was and how hands on director Ulli Lommel was in all departments.
Olivia is the kind of film you just have to accept on its own terms and let it narrative unravel before you. Nightbitch is on my shortlist for most disappointing movie of the year.
