The Lickerish Quartet
The Lickerish Quartet is a 1970 film from the USA and Italy, directed by Radley Metzger, running 90 minutes. reelscum files it under sexploitation.
- Year
- 1970 · 1970s films
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Director
- Radley Metzger
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (54/100)
Defined in the glossary: Sexploitation
The most elegant film ever filed under sexploitation, and the reason Metzger belongs in the canon.
Radley Metzger made erotica for people who read subtitles, and this is his cleverest. A bored aristocratic couple and their grown son watch a grainy stag reel at their Italian castle, then meet a woman who seems to be its star, or her double, and the film sets about folding fiction and reality into one another with real formal nerve. It looks like a European art film of the period because Metzger could actually shoot at that level, all antique rooms and prowling camera.
The sex is the selling point and the least interesting thing in it. Nobody else in American sexploitation was building objects this deliberate.
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