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Summary: Visual treat. Very erotic. Great date film.
Review: Rarely do you get a chance to enjoy a combination of a deeply sensual story and excellent production. There are several scenes that were filmed in Bancock that reveal the beautiful side of the country and city. While the erotic scenes are not overpowering, will leave you breathless.
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Summary: Edited, Stay Away!
Review: Shame on Fox Lorber for sucking the blood out of this movie with their editing of the film's sexiest scenes. Don't bother buying this movie, and keep this in mind when considering buying others of their film reissues.
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Summary: Even better than the first.
Review: Strange...I have the full 92 minute version (with French Subtitles) and it is made by Fox Lorber. Anyway, that is the movie I will review...Sylvia Kristel knows what female sexuality is. She does not have a fantastic body and her face looks typically Dutch, but she has this mystical look that most women nowaday have no clue about (Catherine Deneuve has this same look). She plays the now experienced Emmanuelle (from the first movie), who now has a new husband and lives in Hong Kong. There is little plot, and the movie is based on a series of vignette sexual encounters, but the European soundtrack and exotic locations are so sexual. If there is a movie to put anyone in the mood, without being obvious, this is it. I feel that it is better than the first one, which was very seventies, raunchy and had artsy dialogue. The DVD is still pretty bare, but the transfer is very good (absolutely neccessary for such a visual movie). Sound is average, but hell, I read much of the dialogue anyway (I absolutely love the emmanuelle song). So, you want to a little raunch in your collection, skip Pamela Anderson and all those fake blondes and try this erotic gem that will show you the true meaning of sexiness......Rating: B
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Summary: Happy and enjoyable
Review: The best of the original trilogy, I think. Those are the ones where Sylvia Kristel starred (i.e., had more than a moment on screen), and vastly better than the tripe that followed in the Emmanuelle name.
This is a warmly sensuous film. This might even be the one to use for introducing a shy viewer to movies about physical happiness. Emmanuelle is fully her own woman - every scene lies well within her consent and enjoyment. A new character, Anna Maria, is a sweet, innocent young thing. Emmanuelle, of course, broaches that innocence in an elegantly filmed sequence of encounters. A few scenes, like the infamous "Jade Club", come across as crude, but only when meant to. Still, they don't seem threatening. That's another aspect of this film that I like better than the first.
It's too much to say that this movie has a plot, but it does have a story line of sorts. The movie is really just about happy eroticism, though, the kind that relies more on your imagination than on actual imagery. It's sort of like a musical where I come out humming the tunes even if I can't remember the words. Couples might like this movie, even bashful couples, and might like playing along with the actors on screen.
//wiredweird
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Summary: The NC-17 edit ruins the appeal of this movie.
Review: The subtitles make this movie much less corny than the dubbed version I saw in the theater. Unfortunately the point of the movie is lost in the few minutes that are lost in this NC-17 rated edit. The movie I saw was rated X and played to a packed house in a mainsteam theater. It wasn't too graphic but it was very erotic. I would recomend the original version with subtitles...if you can find it.
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Summary: Shortened version?
Review: There are several running times for this film according to the IMDb, but one thing I noticed about this DVD is that the transfer could have been done in the PAL European standard, which makes the film run faster by 4%, hence the shorter running time. The UK DVD, which is censored by about 30 seconds runs 87 minutes, this Fox Lorber version is short of 86 minutes by less than 10 seconds. The 2.35:1 transfer on the US disc looks soft and the film has its share of scratches, colors are mildly faded as well, certainly not an ideal presentation, but still a good deal at this price, especially since the title is already out of print. These early Emmanuelle films will be reissued by another video company in 2003 as part of their "Emmanuelle Collection".
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Summary: nice escape
Review: There is something about Kristel, this genre, this era, that I must have a lack of good judgement. Perhaps I can blame it on my adolescence. My utopian sex life would mirror these cheesy videos. Kristel is beatiful, her lovers are too. The soft core sex scenes definitely work for me. This video makes for a great escape from the realities of sexual freedom. There are no jealousies, ugly consequences or ugly people. -- Again, I think that I could be a bit more critical if this movie were made with another actress. I have a soft spot for Kristel in my cynical view of soft porn. All of her Emmanuelle films are fun to watch.
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Summary: The uncut version should have been produced on DVD.
Review: This rating is not for the movie which is good and every bit what the other reviewers have noted. My beef is with the DVD which is 85 minutes and even shorter than the VHS version which is 92 minutes. Can someone tell me why? If anything, the director's cut should have been produced on DVD. What a disappointment!
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Summary: This not the film I had remembered?
Review: While I lived in France, I had a chance to see this film in it's uncut verison. I had thought by buying this DVD, that I had in fact had the orginal uncut film. Not quite! I was somewhat disappointed by the missing/removed parts which were very important to this film. I hope this is of some help to you?
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