Love Rites Movie
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| Rating: |
 
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| Run Time: | 98 min |
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Released: | 1989 |
| Directors: |
Walerian Borowczyk |
| Genre/Type: |
Adult Erotic Drama Sex Horror |
| Producers: |
Philippe Guez |
Plot Synopsis by Dan Pavlides
Hugo Arnold (Mathieu Carrière) is a young hedonist who meets actress and prostitute Miriam Gwen (Marina Pierro) in this erotic and violent drama. After heavy petting and foreplay throughout the Paris subway and a church, she takes him to an apartment for the sexual favors she has promised. Hugo is subjected to a humiliating emasculation and wanders dazed on the banks of the Seine following his ordeal. A young woman emerging from the river after swimming stabs herself to death, and the hapless Hugo is blamed for her murder. Josy Bernard also co-stars with Isabelle Tinard.
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Cast
| Actors | Character | Born |
| Marina Pierro | Miriam Gwen | |
| Mathieu Carrière | Hugo Arnoold | Aug 2, 1950 in Hanover, West Germany |
| Josy Bernard | Meriem | |
| Isabelle Tinard | Nora Nix |
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Review by Fred Beldin
The last feature film to date for Polish director Walerian Borowczyk, Love Rites is packaged and advertised with garish graphics of a nude female stroked with razor-tipped fingers, a bit of desperate fraudulence that is destined to attract the wrong audience. Despite an erotic theme and a violent climax, not enough happens for Love Rites to rank as the gore-soaked pornography it is presented to be. Instead, Borowczyk follows a day-long seduction between two strangers in which endless discussions of philosophical and psychological matters are framed with soft-focus religious imagery and paced like a half-remembered dream. The sophistication suits a film based on a book by French surrealist author Andre Pieyre DeMandiargues, but it's a sluggish journey and the principal players are blank-faced and uninteresting. Borowczyk was more successful at crossing explicit sexuality with arthouse tendencies in earlier curiosities such as La Bête and Immoral Tales.
