The Ceremony (2015)
Rating: 5.1/10
Duration: 75 min
Genres: Documentary,
Director(s): Lina Mannheimer,
Description:
In an extravagant house in Paris, people gather for sexual ceremonies in luxurious environments. The 83-year-old author, Catherine Robbe-Grillet is the brains and heart behind the erotic role playing. She is the dominatrix who controls what goes on and her partner, who is 31 years her junior, has promised to submit to her smallest command. Lina Mannheimer portrays a puzzling, intellectual and deeply fascinating woman who, accompanied by her husband Alain Robbe-Grillet, has dedicated herself to investigating sex both in life and in literature. The sadomasochistic ceremonies are presented with an intense presence and cinematic focus in this beautiful and thought-provoking debut film about desire, power and silk scarves.
Cast
- Catherine Robbe-Grillet as Self / Dominatrix
- Beverly Charpentier as Self / Dominatrix
- Dominique Corringer as Self
- Alain Robbe-Grillet as Self (archive footage)
- Christian Hersant as Self
- Claude Helleu as Self
- Ulriqa Fernqvist as Human table
- Emma Kim Hagdahl as Human table
- Daniel Yi Andersson as Beast
- Carl Olof Berg as Beast
- Emma-Clara Folin as Dancer
- Francoise Fournier as Dominatrix
- Sandra Haraldsen as Dominatrix
- Lina Mannheimer as Self - interviewer (voice) (uncredited)