Emmanuelle movies

Has anyone seen Kristel in the adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Love?

Biog sounds harrowing: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jul/22/biography.features1

Grim.

There was a theatre in Toronto, the Metro, that had an Emanuelle sign out front for years, just as an historic artifact, I think. They closed down last year--not sure, the sign may still be there.

http://i.cbc.ca/1.1828143.1379223649!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/outside.jpg

There is also Mata Hari.

I've been reading about the The Cannon Group so that's how I came across all of this.

sorry, the link again

http://www.moviepostermem.com/images/products/square/41ca0874-f714-407f-94bf-b3b5b466f0f9.jpg

I don't want to turn this into a WS thread, but I was madly in love with Laura Gemser, aka "Black Emanuelle" when I was about 14, and I still think she is one of the most beautiful women ever

http://content7.flixster.com/photo/14/14/81/14148177_gal.jpg
RAWR

did my mans jean rollin dir one of these? i think yes right and i think ive been meaning to seek it out

Has anyone seen Kristel in the adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Love?

seriously, who hasnt?

Are the films actually worth watching as films on any level other than seeing boobs? I don't think I really comprehended them at the time, especially nervously trying to catch a few minutes of one while hoping my parents wouldn't wake up. But they had a vibe that I can still feel. The multiple (I think) Black Emanuelle movies in my mind are all just kind of a blur of this impossibly cool and beautiful woman seamlessly slipping in and out of sexy adventures and adventurous sex in a way that seemed so unprocessable to me that it might as well have been a documentary about martians, only one you j/o to.

Just Jaeckin (Emmanuelle, The Story Of O) was a very competent director and his films do have a measure of hazy beauty but content-wise, not so much.

Bitto Albertini (Black Emanuelle) was a less competent director but some of the soundtrack is pretty good.

Joe D'Amato (Emanuelle In America, Emanuelle And The Last Cannibals, etc) was a fairly incompetent director, all things considered, but his films do have a certain mondo horror grotesqueness that feels authentic to the era. That is not a recommendation though.

Jean Rollin wrote and probably co-directed Emmanuelle 6 but he's not officially listed as the director.

Emanuelle in America is such a weird hybrid of Euro softish porno and extreme Italian nastiness (and it has some of the same odd self-reflexiveness as Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust).

Has anyone seen Kristel in the adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Love?

seriously, who hasnt?

― rip van wanko, Tuesday, December 23, 2014 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just lil' ol' me.

I think there's some interesting intellectual content in the first Emmanuelle movie - it's essentially a debate on the nature of eroticism from the perspectives of three main characters. Emmanuelle's husband Jean, who believes in pleasure above all and espouses completely open relationships yet later gets jealous when Emmanuelle disappears with a woman for two days; Mario, an aging lothario, who has his whole philosophy of eroticism worked out and wants to share it but comes across as pretentious and manipulative; and Emmanuelle herself, whose experiences bring her heartbreak yet point to a conception of eroticism that goes beyond sybaritic pleasure. A fourth character, the teenaged Marie-Ange, inspires Emmanuelle with her matter-of-fact approach to sex, as well as her shamelessness.

Btw The Quad cinema in NYC is screening all of Just Jaeckin's '70s/'80s softcore erotic films as well as other Emmanuelle (and Black Emanuelle) films from now till February 6.

Yeah there's a lot of half-digested De Sade/De Beauvoir in it if you care to look. Would think someone somewhere has written this up.

Seeing the NSFW trailer for Goodbye, Emanuelle as a third grader is literally my first memory of sexual attraction. The ur-Naked Lady in my mind, stepping into a bathtub in her birthday suit.

Trailer:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rCVB0B-Ey_U

iirc, the skin-emax and showtime softcore porns in the early 80s were were always sullen and solemn dramas, lol. sex was already mysterious enough to my prepubescent self, but the dour and serious tone of those movies made it all seem so deep

Saw Emmanuelle 3, aka Goodbye Emmanuelle last night. On the plus side it's a step away, mostly, from the orientalist exotica that was done to death in the first two Sylvia Kristel films. Now we're in Seychelles so there's still a colonialist vibe (which I guess is essential to the Emmanuelle concept somehow), but it is a very picturesque setting with lots of nice shades of blue just as the first film was all about shades of green. There's less of a feeling of a journey in this one, and more of a standard "rich Europeans idling in the tropics" feeling. Another positive is the arc of Emmanuelle's iffy relationship with her husband comes to a credible conclusion. On the down side this film seems to lack a truly memorable sequence such as Emmanuelle's naked swim in the pool in the first one or the massage parlor scene in the second. Serge Gainsbourg's music sounds kind of dopey but also appropriate (supposedly the French lyrics of the theme tune are clever).

So it turns out there was an Emmanuelle movie that preceded the Just Jaeckin/Sylvia Kristel hit by five years. It's Italian and based on an Emmanuelle knock-off novel instead of the real one by "Emmanuelle Arsan."

Io, Emmanuelle aka A Man for Emmanuelle (1969) stars Erika Blanc, whose Emmanuelle, in complete contrast to Sylvia Kristel's characterization, comes across as morose and jaded. Italian singer Mina performs the theme song, which asks, "If you don't want love, what is it you want?" The film is arty to the max, with giallo-style decor and colors and unusual camerawork. In fact, I watched this slightly hungover and the constantly circling camera exacerbated my nausea if anything. There's also a fair amount of late '60s street politics mixed into it. Adolfo (Thunderball) Celi is featured in it as well.