Alain Cuny, Sylvia Kristel, Marika Green

Emmanuelle is a beautiful young model and lives in Bangkok together with her husband Jean, who's several years older. She likes him because he's taught her much, and he likes her because she's learnin...( read more  read more... )g so well - and wants to often. Both are very tolerant in matters of extramarital affairs, so he doesn't mind the young Marie-Ange coming over every so often, although she obviously wants more than talk from his wife. But Emmanuelle is more fascinated by the older Bee, and joins her on a trip into the jungle.

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R, 1 hr. 45 min.

Directed by: Just Jaeckin

Release Date: December 3, 1974

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DVD Release Date: June 10, 1998

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  • August 5, 2008
    The ever implicit aspect of sex displayal here let us know how the mid 70's were not as liberated as we may think nowadays.
    Given the scandalous status of this movie way after impact of the 68 thing, I mean. The facing rocking chairs scene is friggin hot, still.
  • November 20, 2009
    Softcore bastante light. Si pretendia ser una pelicula erotica le falto mucha historia y mucha imaginacion.
    Por cierto, Silvia Kristel bastante atractiva cuando era joven.
  • October 1, 2009
    No realy a good film but a great myht of a very voluptuous woman full of sexuality and beaty the dream of every man.
  • August 30, 2009
    I remember kids talking about this movie when I was in high school but I had no idea. It's very slow and simple. The theme song was great.
  • April 14, 2009
    In its day a shocking breakthrough, 'Emmanuelle' was one of the first soft porn movies to go legitimate and be treated to release in High Street cinemas. It aspired to an art house status, its soft focus photography giving it a dreamy, haunting feel. Sylvia Kristel is its eminent...( read more)ly desirable star: she appears in her first scene clad in a simple silk wrap, a bored French housewife, young enough to have retained a firm body and a resolute innocence, yet sophisticated enough to model in the nude and carry herself with an elegance verging on criminality. Life - and morality - for her are as soft-focused as the photography.

    Her husband, meanwhile, is extolling her virtues as a lover to his best friend, explaining she was a virgin when he met her ... but look what she's learned since. His work takes him to Thailand, Emmanuelle follows. There, life is cheap, sex is free, and Emmanuelle soon meets up with a coterie of equally bored, equally desirable women who introduce her to a broad menu of sex, from masturbating in a hanging chair to being corrupted by an ancient lothario.

    "Emmanuelle" has all the classic elements of erotica - voyeurism, sex with a stranger, sex on a plane, women on women, use of force, the notion of sexual innocence being liberated, the predatory older woman, the predatory older man.

    There is a lot of nudity ... but tastefully done. The sex is soft-porn - it is very erotic, very amusing, very soft-focus, at times quite beautifully done ... despite the dated feel of the soundtrack. "Emmanuelle" presents sex as poetry, as adventure. It embodies a libertarian philosophy - only love can heal the world ... so let's have sex. It offers a valuable health lesson - a truly healthy human being is one enjoying frequent orgasms!

    A film to be enjoyed on your own ... or with a partner ... or two. And nobody, but nobody, ever looked better in a baseball cap than Sylvia Kristel.
  • April 5, 2009
    every act of love should include third person, couples love should be outlawed.. WTF!
  • March 19, 2009
    just if you are too fancy for watching porn and too ugly to get a girlfriend
  • December 10, 2008
    I didn't know they had an edited version of this movie. I have the unedited version. Thank goodness, too.
  • March 4, 2008
    It's French soft core porn. Big deal. If I wanted porn, I would watch porn. And not French porn.

    Don't waste your time.
  • November 16, 2007
    I can't believe that I actually saw all the shit I've seen :)

Critic Reviews


October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

It's a relief, during a time of cynicism in which sex is supposed to sell anything, to find a skin flick that's a lot better than it probably had to be. full review

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