это безусловно красивый фильм. у меня есть какая-то слабость к такому качеству кино, к эстетизации, романтизации и я могу лишь упиваться.
я люблю этот вкус лета, пыли, заевшей пленки. природа изящна и красива.
возможно я бы хотела быть ею, с princess treatment, сочным летом, женщинами вокруг и праздностью.

фильм было очень сложно смотреть, невыразимо тяжело и долго, потому что очень нужно было выдыхать время от времени. грязь конечно перебивает весь вкус фильма, где светит солнышко. этот зачаток, где все построено на нелепой порочности, того, что ее используют, и у нее ни права слова, ни вдоха (почти как и у любой другой) – очень печалит. эта дыра (я специально) меня реально отвращает, и я бы не стала смотреть это, если бы знала всю суть как таковую. я думала тут ну... проще, а не эта извращенная мокрая фантазия. чувствую себя ужасно после просмотра.

это безусловно красивый фильм. у меня есть какая-то слабость к такому качеству кино, к эстетизации, романтизации и я могу лишь упиваться.
я люблю этот вкус лета, пыли, заевшей пленки. природа изящна и красива.
возможно я бы хотела быть ею, с princess treatment, сочным летом, женщинами вокруг и праздностью.

фильм было очень сложно смотреть, невыразимо тяжело и долго, потому что очень нужно было выдыхать время от времени. грязь конечно перебивает весь вкус фильма, где светит солнышко. этот зачаток, где все построено на нелепой порочности, того, что ее используют, и у нее ни права слова, ни вдоха (почти как и у любой другой) – очень печалит. эта дыра (я специально) меня реально отвращает, и я бы не стала смотреть это, если бы знала всю суть как таковую. я думала тут ну... проще, а не эта извращенная мокрая фантазия. чувствую себя ужасно после просмотра.

ne gerek var

ne gerek var

her dress with the pearls in the last act was gorgeous

her dress with the pearls in the last act was gorgeous

The film that started it all, Emmanuelle is definitely titillating and beautiful to look at. The titular Emmanuelle travels to Thailand to meet with her husband and is then opened to a new world of sexuality. It’s a lot more erotic than later installments in the Black Emanuelle series, for instance, but it lacks a lot of purpose and drive that that specific series of ripoffs handles effortlessly. The idea of how the film was shot was to avoid a sense of “vulgarity” which, honestly, they avoid well enough. A lot of the “vulgar” parts of the body are hidden and explicit sex acts aren’t shown. It definitely feels voyeuristic and the film revels in that a bit, even having an early sex scene being spied upon by two of “the help” when Emmanuelle reunites with her husband.

Speaking of “the help”, the staff is made up entirely of Thai people. The exotic locale of Bangkok is simply set dressing, even moreso than in the Black Emanuelle series. There’s no real purpose for it to be set here - such a sexual awakening can happen anywhere as far as I’m concerned. The use of the brown body feels like a showcase of savagery. Compared to the first Black Emanuelle film where sex with the local people is still shown to be carnal, sex involving native people - particularly men - is treated as barbarism. The slow panning shots on the female partner’s body is not present and instead the camera is shaky and violent. A later scene even involves the rape of Emmanuelle by Asian men as a part of her sexual awakening, if only to highlight how certain men - older, white men - are better partners and are to be preferred.

Emmanuelle is beautiful. I will not deny that, but beauty without much of purpose is tiresome. How can you have a shot of someone laying nude with their legs over their head while smoking a cigarette and make that feel dull? It’s a exotification of another place through the eyes of a European elite class. Travel is a luxury, sex is a luxury. If it is not a luxury, then it is crude and shamed.

The film that started it all, Emmanuelle is definitely titillating and beautiful to look at. The titular Emmanuelle travels to Thailand to meet with her husband and is then opened to a new world of sexuality. It’s a lot more erotic than later installments in the Black Emanuelle series, for instance, but it lacks a lot of purpose and drive that that specific series of ripoffs handles effortlessly. The idea of how the film was shot was to avoid a sense of “vulgarity” which, honestly, they avoid well enough. A lot of the “vulgar” parts of the body are hidden and explicit sex acts aren’t shown. It definitely feels voyeuristic and the film revels in that a bit, even having an early sex scene being spied upon by two of “the help” when Emmanuelle reunites with her husband.

Speaking of “the help”, the staff is made up entirely of Thai people. The exotic locale of Bangkok is simply set dressing, even moreso than in the Black Emanuelle series. There’s no real purpose for it to be set here - such a sexual awakening can happen anywhere as far as I’m concerned. The use of the brown body feels like a showcase of savagery. Compared to the first Black Emanuelle film where sex with the local people is still shown to be carnal, sex involving native people - particularly men - is treated as barbarism. The slow panning shots on the female partner’s body is not present and instead the camera is shaky and violent. A later scene even involves the rape of Emmanuelle by Asian men as a part of her sexual awakening, if only to highlight how certain men - older, white men - are better partners and are to be preferred.

Emmanuelle is beautiful. I will not deny that, but beauty without much of purpose is tiresome. How can you have a shot of someone laying nude with their legs over their head while smoking a cigarette and make that feel dull? It’s a exotification of another place through the eyes of a European elite class. Travel is a luxury, sex is a luxury. If it is not a luxury, then it is crude and shamed.

7/10🥈

7/10🥈