The Lickerish Quartet / Распутный квартет / Erotic Illusion / Erotic Instinct / Erotic Quartet / Esotika Erotika Psicotika / Hide and Seek (1970) DVDRip |
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Богатая супружеская пара, уставшая от жизни, смотрит домашнее порно в своем замке. Через пару часов они знакомятся с девушкой, которая как две капли воды похожа на одну из разнузданных проституток на экране. Кто она? Начинается игра в прятки, которую можно назвать эротическим дуэтом для четверых. Эротика переплетается с детективом, прошлое с настоящим. а экранная жизнь с реальностью. Эстетская, местами сюрреалистическая эротика Мецгера ставит его в один ряд с Боровчиком и Рас Мейером...
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?.. It's a pretty adventurous movie, poised rather uneasily between constant arty inventiveness and a distinctly stilted coating of baroque overemphasis that, of course, makes due space for the porno calculations. From the very first scene of the family watching the dirty movies, heard initially as disembodied heads in darkness, there's an obvious hankering after seriousness, and the astonishment is that this ambition never becomes utterly foolish. It's quite a provocative film, and would likely not seem so dated with warmer, more nuanced actors, a less obviously titillating style, and without the unfortunate montages of running through the fields and suchlike to the accompaniment of gooey sixties music. There's ultimately no real revelation though, despite the constant return to doubling and echoing and evocation of the odd relationship between art and life, but it gives the feeling of having been intuitively (more than intellectually) shaped and prodded into something quite coherent. The highly designed library sex scene hardly fits but is memorable in its own right...
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It's really too bad that Radley Metzger got branded as a "dirty film" maker so early in his career-- many of his filmic efforts prove close to the same caliber of many important films of the period. A perfect example of Metzger proving his artistic and intellectual capabilities comes by way of his 1970 film, The Lickerish Quartet. Set in a "700 year old castle," a husband and wife, and the wife's son, watch an 8mm stag film. The son becomes upset, the husband and wife simply find it amusing. They finish the film and head to a carnival. The end up attending an attraction, The Wheel of Death. Not only amazed by the spectacle, the family is even more amazed when one of the motorcycle riders takes of her helmet and reveals herself to be the girl they had just seen in the film. The entire group is shocked by the revelation, the husband and wife decide it would be a great idea to invite the stunningly beautiful girl to watch the film with them in their castle. The husband invites her over, and she accepts. What follows, summarized quite succinctly, is the seduction of all three "family members" by the beautiful girl. The girl makes it with the castle owner in the library, where dictionary definitions of words relating to sex pattern the floor; in the woods with the young man; and back in the study where the film was first viewed with the castle owner's wife. However, much more is going on that what appears at surface level, and Metzger leaves us with a deliberate, ambiguous mystery to solve.
An interview with Metzger from 1976 reveals his inspiration from Alain Resnais' film, Last Year at Marienbad. While the film, to most, may seem in an entirely different league than Metzger's magnum opus, many similarities can be noticed. Both films deal heavily with memory, distortion of memory, and memory versus reality. Also, both feature long, sumptuous tracking shots, Metzger's film to a much lesser extent to that of Resnais'. Another big art house title the film is comparable to is Pasolini's Teorema; in which Terence Stamp plays a stranger who visits a dysfunctional family and changes everything. In fact, there are so many similarites between the films that many cinema goers assumed that Metzger had been heavily inspired by the Pasolini film; however, Metzger denies having seen Pasolini's film before he made his own, although after viewing it doesn't deny their similarities. As I intended to bring up originally, it really is a shame that Metzger never received the critical praise he deserved, especially since this film is at the same level as the enigmatic films of Alain Robbe-Grillet and aforementioned Resnais and Pasolini. If critics of the time had been willing to watch Metzger's film in a context outside of it being a "blue movie," one can be sure that it would be as well remembered as the aforementioned "classics.
The film is one of Metzger's crowning achievement as far as technicalities go; it features the most beautiful setting in a Metzger film, incredible camera work by Hans Jura (who did the cinematography for many of Metzger's other beautiful films), a perfect score by Stelvio Cipriani (credited as "Stephen Cipriani"), and a beautiful cast that's as beautiful as the film itself; acting, albeit seeming a bit too theatrical, fits the script perfectly. While probably not being the best introduction to Radley Metzger, The Lickerish Quartet still serves as an excellent movie on it's own, outside of Metzger's oeuvre. View it as an example of the excellent, ambiguous avant-garde art films of the sixties, or view as one of Metzger's most personal and experimental works; either way, you won't be disappointed. (Mike Kitchell, 2007. http://esotikafilm.com)
Информация о фильме: Название: Распутный квартет В ролях / Cast: Silvana Venturelli, Frank Wolff, Erika Remberg, Paolo Turco...
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