Rito d'amore

Rito d'amore
Directed by	Aldo Lado
Written by	Aldo Lado
Starring	Larry Huckmann Beatrice Ring
Music by	Pino Donaggio
Release date	1989 (1989)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Rito d'amore (English: Love Ritual) is a 1989 Italian drama film directed by Aldo Lado.[1][2]

Plot

The young Valerie is a very determined girl: she wants to become an actress and participates in dozens of auditions, almost always without success. To live (she shares a small apartment with her friend Louise) she also agrees to pose naked at the Institute of Fine Arts, where she meets Yuro, an introverted and disturbing Japanese. Valerie, engaged to a musician, slowly lets herself be involved in Yuro's charm, to the point of accepting all conditions. The two end up estranged from the world and live physically and intellectually united, in a relationship bordering on the pathological. Yuro, taking his philosophy of life to the extreme, ends up killing the girl (who is consenting) and eating her flesh: the last desperate rite of love to live with her always.

Cast

• Larry Huckmann: Yuro
• Beatrice Ring: Valerie
• Francesco Casale: Pierre
• Natalia Brizzi: Louise

References

1. "'Rito d'amore'. Ultimo amore cannibale". Bietti (in Italian). Retrieved 23 January 2022.
2. Manlio Gomarasca; Davide Pulici (2009). La piccola cineteca degli orrori. Tutti i film che i fratelli Lumière non avrebbero mai voluto vedere. Milan: Rizzoli.