Your life is garbage and your kid might be God. Therapy is cheaper.
A disillusioned man (Scott Cohen), whose life is completely falling apart, starts to believe that his teenage son is the Messiah, destined to save the world.
Acting
Scott Cohen's unraveling is genuinely uncomfortable to witness.
Direction
Zeltser treats madness with unsettling, almost religious patience.
Director
Yuri Zeltser
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's double meaning—ritual and severance—mirrors Charlie's attempt to cut himself off from failure through divine fantasy.
Zeltser, Russian-American, channels Eastern European spiritual despair into suburban American collapse; think Tarkovsky by way of Safdie Brothers.
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