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Video Review
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Ritual, a new VCA release, featuring Vicca and directed by Michael Ninn, is a showcase for Ninn's brilliant art direction and cinematographic skills. Like all of Ninn's work, this film features a stunning array of dazzling visuals, interesting and engaging camera angles, and colorful, creative costuming. The camera work is on a par with big budget mainstream movies. The close-ups are particularly well done as they fill up the whole screen and cater to the viewers' desire to get close to the action. Outstanding film editing never allows us to get bored with one perspective as Ninn continually changes the camera angle and fades gracefully from close up to long view without losing the pace of the sexual excitement. |
One of the qualities of Ninn's work is the way in which the sex scenes dominate the film overshadowing the plot line, which is at most minimal. This gives his work a phantasmagoric, dream-like quality where one scene bleeds into another without apparent rhyme or reason just as one dream scene fades into another in our sleep. This doesn't overburden his film with a shallow pretense of realism but allows our imagination to revel in his sexy dreamscape.
There are a variety of different sexual action scenes in Ritual involving all of the usual combinations we come to expect in a good porn film. My favorites in this film were the girl on girl scenes with four women involving a particularly engaging sequence where one woman's pubic hair was shaved, and a scene with a backdrop of what appears to be welder's sparks.
Ritual starts unexpectedly with five minutes of real theatre. Vicca is the fallen woman in some sort of interrogation room being grilled by actor Tyce Bune, who comes in dressed in a black raincoat and hat. This is a delightful archetypal scenario of the typical porn customer, Bune, probing the soul of the porn actress, the woman who went too far. This sets up the plot thread which runs through Ritual and allows for a moment of intense personal engagement at the end of the film where Vicca asks the audience: "Where are you. Where are you seeing this? .Out of thousands of films, how did you find me? Was it an accident or did you search me out?"
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