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Digitally restored extended version!
Directed by Radley Metzger
Opening with a line from Pirandello—“All this present reality of yours is fated to seem a mere illusion to you tomorrow”—director Radley Metzger’s enigmatic masterpiece The Lickerish Quartet shares thematic and structural elements with Joseph Losey’s The Go-Between, released the same year. True, Metzger quickly follows up his literary allusion with scenes from a stag film, but as an aristocratic family—father, mother and son—seeks ever more erotic thrills, their hungry desire triggers a chain reaction of repressed memories and buried secrets that seems to bend time and space. Surreal and sensual with stunningly lavish production design, The Lickerish Quartet is presented here in a digital restored, extended director’s cut.
Producer: Radley Metzger. Screenwriter: Michael DeForrest. Cinematographer: Hans Jura. Editor: Amedeo Salfa. Cast: Silvana Venturelli, Frank Wolff, Erika Remberg, Paolo Turco.
Blu-ray, color, 90 min.
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