Ritual - A Psychomagic Story

Directed by Guilia Brazzale, Luca Immesi
Omnibus Entertainment
2013
94 Minutes
Italy
Italian
Romance, Thriller, Fantasy
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The fragile Lia, and the sadist Viktor, have a very strong and passionate relationship but when she gets pregnant and he forces her to interrupt the pregnancy, their relationship breaks apart and Lia falls into a deep depression. After an attempted suicide she decides to leave Viktor and, in the last desperate effort to cure herself, she goes to visit her old aunt Agata (Anna Bonasso) in her creepy 18th century villa in Mason, a small village of the Veneto countryside in Italy. (Based on a novel by Alejandro Jodorowsky).

Cast

  • Désirée Giorgetti
  • Ivan Franek
  • Anna Bonasso
  • Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Cosimo Cinieri
  • Patrizia Laquidara
  • Roberta Sparta
  • Fabio Gemo
  • Nicola Arabi
  • Gaia Ziche
DVD Features

Discs: 1

  • Highest Rating
    "Partially scored by Moby, there’s a perfume-commercial elegance to the film that allows for random montages of the arresting Giorgetti in a number of peculiar positions and settings (Lady Gaga would love this film). "
    Gabe Toro, IndieWire
  • Highest Rating
    "How the tension between man and women is resolved (or not) becomes strangely compelling in this artfully composed film by Italy’s Giulia Brazzale and Luca Immesi. "
    Dave Luhrssen, Shepherd Express (Milwaukee)
  • Highest Rating
    "[With] the newly-released-on-DVD She Wolf (2013) and Ritual: Una storia psicomagica (2013) you’d have a pretty good head-start on a high-end Empowered Women in Horror festival, perfect for any upcoming Women’s History Month commemoration. "
    Gary Dretzka, Movie City News.com
  • Highest Rating
    "Handsome, austere and weighty and plays more like a European arthouse film than a work of surrealist art. "
    Amos Lassen, Amos Lassen Reviews
  • Highest Rating
    "Well made and well-acted… "
    Ken Murray, The Nerd’s Templar

Awards & Recognition

Official Selection
Fantasia Int'l. Film Festival

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