(Radley Metzger, US 1973, 90 min., DCP)
If you took Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, softened it, candy-coated it, and thrust it into the devil-may-care post-sexual revolution era, you would get Radley Metzger’s Score. Metzger’s films have been described as the champagne of erotic cinema, and you’ll be unlikely to find an X-rated film, which is classier and breezier than this 1973 softcore masterpiece. This cheeky bisexual fairy tale is the ideal entry point to the porno chic era for the unacquainted and unsure due to its lighthearted yet stylish simplicity. The set-up is this: Swingers Elvira (Claire Wilbur) and Jack (Gerald Grant) invite over naive, repressed newlywed couple Betsy (Lynn Lowry) and Eddie (Calvin Culver, better known as Casey Donovan) and mischievously compete to seduce the same-sex counterpart before midnight. The vibrant, French New Wave-inspired aesthetic is simultaneously sophisticated, sexy, and silly—never seedy. Come lose your preconceived notions about pornography alongside Betsy and Eddie as they lose themselves in their innermost desires and their true selves whom they lost somewhere along the way.
Introduction by and post-screening discussion with Selznick student Rebecca Zeiger.
This screening is for adults only.
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