Emmanuelle (1974) on Netflix
In Bangkok, Emmanuelle joins Jean, her diplomat husband, who tolerates affairs outside their marriage. She meets the young Marie-Ange and Bee, an archeologist.
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Plot summary
Emmanuelle arrives in Bangkok to live with her husband Jean, a diplomat there. He wants to know whether she took a lover during her time in Paris; she tells him she did not. Marie-Ange, a young woman Emmanuelle meets after a swim, comes to the house. Emmanuelle admits to her that she slept with two men she met on the plane from Paris, and she tells Jean about Marie-Ange that night; he encourages the friendship. At a party Marie-Ange introduces her to Mario, an older man and a lover of Marie-Ange's. Emmanuelle is drawn instead to Bee, an archeologist who keeps outside the expatriate circles.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Emmanuelle (1974)
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- Sylvia Kristel found filming Emmanuelle's opium-den rape in Bangkok very hard, saying the two Thai men were not actors and "I really had to fight for my life there." The scene was shot in a single take with several cameras.
- Sylvia Kristel auditioned for Emmanuelle by accident, having meant to try out for a commercial and walking through the wrong door; her tie-up string dress came off during the interview and she kept answering questions. After nude photographs, Just Jaeckin cast her as Emmanuelle.
- To prove how closely Emmanuelle's tracks resembled the King Crimson song "Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part Two", Robert Fripp had to sit in a theatre and record the entire film; he later received the credit for composing the track.
- Christine Boisson was 17 when she got her first role, in Emmanuelle. Her parents signed a release so that, as a minor, she could shoot in an erotic film, and her mother never stopped putting her down while pocketing her entire fee.
- Columbia Pictures released Emmanuelle in the United States and it was the company's first X-rated film; Columbia agreed to distribute it after learning that the audience seen queueing for the film was mostly women.
- French censors held Emmanuelle up for several months, granting permission only after Valéry Giscard d'Estaing had won the presidential elections in May 1974.
- In Japan the film popularized the phrase "emanieru suru", which translates directly as "to do Emmanuelle" and means to have a casual and extravagant love affair.
