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List Price: $19.95Amazon.com's Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.96 (10%)as of 03/20/2010 10:46 EDT
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0720229911511
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, HiFi Sound, Letterboxed, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: FIRST RUN FEATURES
MPN: D911511D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 21, 2006
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Theatrical Release Date: 1970
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Radley Metzger reached the pinnacle of his career with this delirious erotic fantasy-cum-beguiling art film. A bored, bickering aristocratic family on the prowl for thrills spies a woman (Silvana Venturelli, a Jenny McCarthy lookalike with an air of mystery) who looks exactly like the lead in the stag film they just viewed. Inviting the comely young blonde to their elegant seaside mansion, the family finds the mystery woman reaching into their psyches, unlocking each character's fantasy, and fulfilling their desires in a succession of seductive romps. The line between fantasy and reality blurs as Metzger transforms rooms into striking expressionist sets--a library, for example, turns into a living dictionary of sexual slang--and the story into a heady hall of mirrors as memories and fantasies merge and collide with the present, coming out on the other side in a brilliant, mind-bending conclusion. What emerges more resembles Alain Resnais than Emmanuelle, a game of illusionist hide-and-seek in a sensual landscape. Hans Jura's cinematography is never less than gorgeous: handsomely composed, lush with rich color, and--as always--more suggestive than explicit. Metzger's masterpiece is the most seductive art film ever made: ripe, tastefully stylish, and playful smart. --Sean Axmaker
Description:
Filmed in the breathtaking Castle of Balsorano in Italy's Abruzzi Mountains, The Lickerish Quartet finds three people obsessed with an erotic film that features a striking young blonde woman. When the three - a man, his elegant wife, and her hungry-for-experience son - accidentally happen upon the young performer at a local carnival and invite her back to their castle, they fall into a maze of truth and illusion, as each fulfills their fantasy in the seduction of the mysterious woman.
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Watch it as a "regular" movie as the sex scenes aren't really TOP! But the movie itself is quite nice, some nice avant guard movie making (being the 70's), the story is not bad, nice parallel stories and flashbacks...
Worth watching, but don't expect to be "horny as hell" after....
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The Lickerish Quartet, though tame by today's standards comes from an era when for a movie to have some explicit content would have to be deemed "to have political, social or artistic value". The "experimental" aspects of The Lickerish Quartet are weird or don't make sense like sudden cuts to Bosch paintings or a couple making love on a floor with words written on it as from a dictionary that suddenly happen to be words relating to sexual terms. The whole "was it real or just a dream?" plot barely ... Read More
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No redeeming qualities, except maybe the cute blond in a short skirt. That is all. Dumb settings, not artful or exciting. Who cares about a weird bored family living in a castle, with a grown up son who likes to do magic tricks? Life is too short for this.
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I once wrote a review on "Wildflowers" (2000) suggesting that it should have won an Oscar for cinematography. Same thing applies here. Anybody who has been captured by (or curious about) the mystical splendor of Europe's old castles doesn't want to miss this 1970 movie. Whether it's erotic enough (or too erotic for an art film) is another story. Cinematography alone defines pretty well the difference between "Lickerish Quartet" and thousands of sleazy flicks out there. (P.S. I first gave it 3 stars ... Read More
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"The Lickerish Quartet" is a shining example of alternative 1970's film making. In a time when adult films had to be classified as "art-films" to avoid censorship, writers and directors were forced to put a lot of effort into plot, dialog, and storyline. The end result sometimes worked better than others and here we see just how imaginitive a.... film can be. Beautiful cinematography, grandiose setting, and a certain "twighlight-zone" twist, make this film anything but boring. What makes it shine is ... Read More
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Binding: DVD
EAN: 0720229911511
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, HiFi Sound, Letterboxed, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Languages:
Manufacturer: FIRST RUN FEATURES
MPN: D911511D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 21, 2006
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Theatrical Release Date: 1970