This infamous soft-core porn movie is notorious, not for its sex scenes which are tame by any standards, but for its pretensions to be 'about something'. "The Lickerish Quartet" finds director Radley Metzger stepping into the shoes of Antonioni only to find they don't fit at all. This is porn for the art-house crowd, (the so-called 'dirty mac' brigade would get bored very quickly), but then the art-house crowd would see through this immediately, (it's way too glossy to pass for camp).
Shot in Eastman Colour it's certainly easy on the eye and whatever Silvana Venturelli lacks in acting talent she undoubtedly makes up for in looks. The only 'name' in the cast is Frank Wolff who, despite some energetic humping, doesn't look particularly happy. (he committed suicide only three years later). Perhaps best seen as a curio it's just weird enough to be of passing interest.
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