https://vo.rs/tags/the-lickerish-quartet/Latest from the The Lickerish Quartet desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-lickerish-quartet-metzgers-film-within-a-film-puzzle/<p>If you want to prove that Radley Metzger belonged in the conversation with the European art directors he admired, you play someone <em>The Lickerish Quartet</em> and refuse to tell them what it is. Made in 1970, it is a hall-of-mirrors puzzle about the unstable boundary between images and reality, shot with the formal ambition of a Resnais or an Antonioni, and it happens to carry adult content of the kind that got it filed under exploitation for decades. Watched now, restored and taken seriously, it is the most intellectually daring film Metzger ever made, and one of the strangest films of its moment in any category.</p>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000