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      The Lickerish Quartet

      R Released Oct 13, 1970 1h 30m Drama List
      67% Tomatometer 9 Reviews 55% Audience Score 100+ Ratings A young woman is invited to an Italian villa by adult-film fans who believe her to be the porn star of their dreams. Read More Read Less

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      Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times The Lickerish Quartet is too good for its own good, which makes it very little good at all as a skin flick. Rated: 1.5/4 Oct 23, 2004 Full Review Zach Campbell Slant Magazine It all sounds risible on paper, but the immediate effects are rather powerful. Rated: 4/4 Jul 21, 2004 Full Review Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Radley Metzger's witty softcore arabesque Jan 15, 2012 Full Review Sean Axmaker Turner Classic Movies Online You could describe this delirious erotic fantasy as a stag film reworking of Teorema as directed by Alain Resnais. Aug 21, 2011 Full Review Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid All of this makes for a fascinating viewing experience, a treat for both the mind and the body. Aug 19, 2011 Full Review Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Daring softcore porn by Radley Metzger. Rated: 4/5 Nov 6, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member This film is very suspect, yet one is inclined to keep watching. An adult guy and his parents watching nudie films? Sure. But then to bring the carnival gal home with them?! Kray-kray(zee) The thing about symbolism and the space/time continuim added in with a post war present day flashing back to those war days with the same people lends an iron clad mystic appeal. The lush sceney was once bland and the echo of bullet ridden hollowness is stark, instead of a circus of color and harmonious tones as the audience is seeing it. Now when you combine all the confusion about their guest and her heritage, well it is something riveting. They think she is a film star and plan to make her feel a bit awkward. What they get in return is nothing short of real life itself- murphy style mocking and a fine gypsy schooling; resulting in high society getting the time money can't possibly buy for all the ha-ha ha Karmic lessons a dispensation and Universe can pack in one magical wallop Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member A bona fide, swinging '70's sexploitation film masquerading as an art film. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member If there is such a thing as highbrow smut, this is it. A wealthy middle-aged couple gets their kicks from watching stag films with their teenage son (n-i-i-ice) and provide MST3K-style commentary 20 years BEFORE there was a Satellite of Love. When attending a local carnival, they think the female motorcyclist is one of the girls from the latest film, so they invite her back to their estate. Whatever they were expecting to happen goes off the rails and down the rabbit hole. Flashbacks, flash-forwards, flash-upside-downs, films-within-films, and a whole smorgasbord of surrealism takes hold. An instruction manual for jet engine repair written in Chinese would be easier to make sense of than this story, but hopefully that's the intention. There's enough consistent weirdness happening that I couldn't turn it off even through the slower bits, and at best it's a Kia going uphill. Mystery girl Silvana Venturelli looks amazingly similar to model Vendela which I count as a plus, but the son's horrible acting and Eric Forman hair warrant a minus. Here's a single-line alliterative review: backseat Bunuel with boobs. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Clumsy and over stylised, while The Lickerish Quartet has some interesting elements of softcore erotica meeting the giallo genre, it ends up feeling quite disappointing, messy and over indulgent. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Now THIS is how you make an erotic film. Beautiful cinematography, an intriguing storyline with fantastic aspects to it and a very sparse use of overt sexuality. I really dug this one. It's quite existential and also a very beautiful film. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Wow! One of Metzger's best! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis A young woman is invited to an Italian villa by adult-film fans who believe her to be the porn star of their dreams.
      Director
      Radley Metzger
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Oct 13, 1970, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jan 3, 2019
      Runtime
      1h 30m
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