SCORE
(Radley Metzger, 35mm on Blu ray, USA/Yugoslavia, 90min., 1974)

Festival Sponsor: Joseph R. Pabst Campus Partner: UWM Art History Department

The sexploitation genre of the late 1960’s and early ‘70s had its auteur in Radley
Metzger, whose filmic softcore roundelays stirred a following among the then
new movie-going class of porn-curious swingers, heterosexual couples, mostly,
whose pursuit of faddish liberation included sampling new cinematic positions.
Romanticized for its unfettered bisexuality, Score is perhaps Metzger’s most
polymorphously amorous film. The worldly, been-there duo of Elvira and Jack are
engaging in bets over who can seduce whom. Up next: newlyweds Betsy and Eddie.
Elvira hopes to seduce Betsy by midnight, while Jack plays downstairs with Eddie
(played here by gay porn star Casey Donovan). The Film Society of Lincoln Center,
who recently enjoyed a retrospective of Metzger’s bountiful oeuvre, claims this film
as “a kinky, sex-romp reworking of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” but there’s no
screaming or dark-night-of the-soul stuff here. Everyone finds satisfaction at this
uninhibitedly randy party, and at this often quite funny, from another planet, film.
And please note, this celebrated cult film merits the cautionary if not explanatory
provison of “adult content.”

Screening to be introduced by Dr. Elena Gorfinkel, Assistant Professor, UWM Department of Art History, and sexploitation historian.

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