Title: Has not aged well at all.
Product review: Emmanuelle (Just Jaeckin, 1974)So this is where it all began: Just Jaeckin's film of Jean-Louis Richard's screen adaptation of Emmanuelle Arsan's... novel? Memoir? Who knows? (Actually, not where it truly began; there was an Italian adaptation in 1969, but it certainly didn't explode the way this did.) Arsan, played by Sylvia Kristel, goes to Thailand to join her husband, and finds herself in a number of erotic entanglements with various folks. (Of especial note: Christine Boisson, also at the beginning of her career.) As is to be expected form this sort of film, you're not going to get much in the way of technical excellence or brilliant scriptwriting; the focus here is on flesh, flesh, and more flesh, tied together with the most tissue-thin of plots. If you like that sort of thing, of course, this is one of the most important movies ever made. If you don't, it's the start of a plague. For the rest of us, it's just bad softcore that hasn't aged well. *
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