871 The Lickerish Quartet (1970) [SC] .txt
The Lickerish Quartet (1970) softcore
Directed by
Radley Metzger
IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065981/
A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in the show looks exactly like one of the women in the movie, so the man invites her to join them for a nightcap. Tensions among the family seem to rise. She stays overnight, and during her 24 hours in the castle, each of its three residents involves her in a fantasy. She, in turn, keeps asking, "Who has the gun?" Will there be violence before it's over?
Cast:
Silvana Venturelli - The visitor
Frank Wolff - Castle owner
Erika Remberg - His wife
Paolo Turco - Her son
Review:
Put simply, Metzger would be a crucial director even if he had only made The Lickerish Quartet and nothing else. On its own terms as cinema and outside the boundaries of European erotica, this remarkable film operates on levels of narrative gamesmanship, visual architecture, and technical virtuosity that put most modern films to shame. Many illusion versus reality films tend to fall flat on their own pretension, but this, along with 8 1/2, The Stunt Man, and Last Year at Marienbad, is one of the few exceptions.
While The Lickerish Quartet contains a great deal of sex, the love scenes are ingeniously presented as moody vignettes which reflect the nature and transformation of the characters… All of the actors are well up to the task here, and the twangy, vibrant score by Stelvio Cipriani (or Stephen Cipriani, as the film credits him) adds to the twisted, playfulambience. Beautifully shot and enhanced with razor sharp editing (including many disorienting cross cuts between time and space), The Lickerish Quartet is that rare film that not only benefits from repeated viewings but actually requires them.
- mondo-digital.com
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