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F-0167

Title:

Cérémonie d'amour
Love Rites
(UK)
Queen of the Night (USA)
Rites of Love

Category:

S

Produced:

1988

Country:

France

Released:

Film: Mar 1989 (West Germany)
DVD: Apr 2005, Feb 2006 (3-DVD)

Director:

Walerian Borowczyk

Writer:

Walerian Borowczyk; André Pieyre de Mandiargues (novel)

Actors:

Marina Pierro (Myriam); Mathieu Carrière (Hugo Arnold); Josy Bernard (Myriem); Isabelle Tinard; Jacques Couderc; Guy Bonnafoux; Claudine Berg; Lucette Gill; Julian Lee; Jennifer Ford; Sabrina Belleval; Jean-Raphael Sessa; Jean Négroni (Récitant / Narrator - voice)

Description:

The last film by the great Walerian Borowczyk, about the terrors of seduction. When Hugo (Mathieu Carriere) meets Myriam (Marino Pierro), a prostitute who picks up her clients on the Paris metro, he soon becomes obsessed with her sultry beauty and follows her to a flat owned by the mysterious Sara Sand, where he consummates his passion. Suddenly he finds the rules of the game have changed as Myriam is now in charge of his body and his soul. A macabre love poem from the Director of The Beast and Immoral Tales. (Amazon.com)

Language:

French

TT:

100 min / 97 min (DVD) / 84 min (DVD) / 285 min (3-DVD)

Bach's Music:

Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C major, BWV 564

Format:

Film: Color
DVD: (Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Region 1) | (PAL, Subtitled, All Regions) | (3-DVD Box set, Color, NTSC)

Company:

Film: Sara Films
DVD: Cult Epics

Comments:

3-DVD Set includes: Walerian Borowczyk Collection (The Beast/ Goto Island of Love/ Love Rites)

Watch selections:

Buy movie at:

DVD: Amazon.com | Amazon.com [PAL] | Amazon.com [3-DVD]

Source/Links: IMDB
Contributor: Aryeh Oron (November 2007)


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