https://vo.rs/tags/score/Latest from the Score desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/score-radley-metzgers-witty-grown-up-eros/<p>Radley Metzger is the most misfiled director in American cinema. Shelve him under adult film and you lose what made him singular; treat him as a straight art-house auteur and you have to explain away his subject matter. The truth is that Metzger built a small, immaculate body of work in the 1960s and 70s that took frank sexual material and dressed it in the production values, wit and formal control of European art cinema — jet-set locations, elegant widescreen photography, dialogue that crackles like a stage comedy. <em>Score</em>, from 1974, is the clearest demonstration of what he was doing, because it strips the glamour back to a single house and four people and lets you watch the machinery work.</p>Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000