Emmanuelle
by Just Jaeckin
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Actor: Alain Cuny, Daniel Sarky, Jeanne Colletin, Marika Green, Sylvia KristelDirector: Just Jaeckin
Brand: Lions Gate
Writer: Jean-Louis Richard
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of Emmanuelle
DVD Review: soft-porn pioneer, for what it is worth
Summary: 3 Stars
I have heard of this and seen clips for many years, but had never watched the whole thing until now. I must admit that, in the era of AIDS and rather the very high quality "relationship" films that have since come out, this appears rather crude and banal.
If you look at it in historical context, there are things you can say about it. The 60s are past, and so when its values were really engraved into the collective mind was the 1970s. Free love, unencumbered relationships, no worry for consequence, the search for total satisfaction, etc. etc. This film embodies all that with a totality that makes it a work of art, I suppose, even if it is soft porn. The viewer can imagine that there is some kind of philosophy that makes sense behind it, that there is a point that is deeper than mere titillation. You get masturbation uninhibitively portrayed - a great thing for adolescents to say the least, which I was when this came out - and bizarre sex. (In a word, it is very effective as eroticism: Kristel is an astonishing beauty and good actor.)
However, as a film, it is pretty mediocre. A naive wife with a libertine husband moves to Thailand for his diplomatic job. She enters a world of pleasure seeking that is beyond simple promiscuity and infidelity: she seeks perfection in love and eroticism, mixing them to her peril. By the end, she finds them as a garish self-styled whore, which is supposed to represent a profound psychological transformation as some kind of ideal. OK. We know, with experience, that this is both unattainable (if you value such things as a good marriage of intimate partners) and in the AIDS era, sincerely dangerous.
Thus, it is a mistake to regard this as meaningful. It is pornography, pure and simple. I would recommend it as such. But it is not a very good film experience.
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