RITUAL - A PSYCHOMAGIC STORY

RELEASE DATE 17 Febbraio 2012

GENRE             Psycho-thriller

STUDIO            Esperimentocinema

ABOUT              Psychomagic, Post Abortion Syndrome, Madness, Superstition, Popular traditions

DESCRIPTION    "This film is therapeutic" - Alejandro Jodorowsky
Ritual is a shocking story. This film seeks to explore the territory of maternity, psychomagic, madness and superstition also with particular attention to popular beliefs. With regard to the technical point of view, Ritual is the first movie in Europe that has been shot on Red Epic, 5K Raw digital camera. With the same technology they shot Spiderman 4 and The hobbit, the prequel of Lord of the rings.

PLOT OUTLINE    The young and fragile Lia suffers from a deep depression. She is consumed by a sense of guilt due to an abortion. Her relationship with her boyfriend Viktor is getting worse and worse and in the last desperate attempt to cure herself, Lia goes to visit her old aunt Agata in her creepy 18th century villa...

STARRING          Desiree Giorgetti, Ivan Franek, Anna Bonasso, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Patrizia Laquidara, Roberta Sparta, Fabio Gemo, Roberto Poli, Mariuccia Nichele, Vito Vittorio Faggionato
 
PHOTOGRAPHY    Luca Coassin

DIRECTED, WRITTEN AND EDITED BY      Giulia Brazzale Luca Immesi