The feature film, which will be released in France on September 25, is “conceived as an exploration of pleasure in a post-Me Too era”.
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The feminist remake ofEmmanuelle“, a great success of erotic cinema of the 1970s, with Noémie Merlant in the title role, will have its world premiere at the opening of the San Sebastian International Festival, in Spain, on September 20.
The film, directed by Audrey Diwan (Golden Lion in Venice in 2021 with The eventnt), “is intended as an exploration of pleasure in a post-Me Too era” and was filmed in the fall of 2023 in Hong Kong and Paris, the organizers said in a press release.
Sensual wandering
“Emmanuelle is a woman who does not enjoy, she is in search of a lost pleasure. She flies alone to Hong Kong as part of a business trip. In this sensual city, where she initiates numerous meetings, she meets Kei, a man who escapes her…”pitches Emmanuelle Diwan on X.
Remake of the film by Just Jaeckin with Sylvia Kristel in 1974, this new Emmanuelle will be released in France on September 25 with Noémie Merlant in the title role (Portrait of the girl on fire, The Innocent), accompanied by the British Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive).
Emmanuelle is originally an erotic novel, the plot of which is set in Bangkok, published clandestinely in 1959 without the name of author or publisher. It was signed years later by Emmanuelle Arsan, pseudonym of a French novelist of Thai origin.
