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The Lickerish Quartet is the latest film by director Radley Metzger, the man responsible for I, A Woman, Therese and Isabelle, and Camille 2,000. The script for the film is self-consciously earnest and serious, as all pornography must be, but Metzger’s camera movements, his use of color, sound and decor — indeed, his mise-en-scene — is enough to make the mouth of any auteur critic water.
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The Lickerish Quartet is the latest film by director Radley Metzger, the man responsible for I, A Woman, Therese and Isabelle, and Camille 2,000. The script for the film is self-consciously earnest and serious, as all pornography must be, but Metzger’s camera movements, his use of color, sound and decor — indeed, his mise-en-scene — is enough to make the mouth of any auteur critic water. With The Lickerish Quartet the ever-improving Metzger has produced some of the richest, ripest kitsch cinema since Douglas Sirk gave us Written on the Wind and Imitation of Life in the late fifties.
Metzger’s specialty is filming love making, a seemingly voyeuristic activity which he has raised to new heights. In The Lickerish Quartet the camera gently pans back and forth while a fornicating couple rolls across the floor of a library which has been decorated with the dictionary definitions of innumerable dirty words. Later, Metzger zooms in and out on a couple making love in the countryside, deftly turning the potentially pastoral into the purely pornographic.