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Summary: Heavily Cut
Review: Another reviewer has already said this, but it is worth repeating: this DVD version is heavily cut. It is not at all entertaining in this format. The best parts have been left out. Most of the erotic scenes end abruptly just when things are getting interesting. Very disappointing.
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Summary: Edited, Stay Away!
Review: i love the show and the movie i would like it have it on dvd i alway wachi it it my fav show the people are good i lke when mat want to marry a nother relgen girl i like ruthie . and also habve it out in theaters i give it 2 tumps upit reay kool
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Summary: The Best
Review: If we had to pick the best erotic film ever (and we're glad we don't), this would be it! This film violates many of the conventions that hold back other erotic films. Rather than unbelieveably beautiful bodies and impossibly vigorous action, this film features erotic tension between several believable, attractive characters. What's more, it has one of the most important characteristics of any movie -- it ends at just the right time. (Interestingly, the same could be said of the film's subject!) If the bath scene doesn't stick with you for years after viewing this film (as it has for us), please check your pulse. Be sure to listen to the original, French soundtrack, because in addition to being the language of love, many of the voices of the actors add immeasurably to the eroticism of this film (particularly the young girl, Catherine Rivet).
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Summary: Could do in a pinch....
Review: If you are a sex loving couple looking for some "lustful voyerism" before pounding each other silly...but you don't want the usual XXX (boring) porn...this may be a film for you.
It has all of the magic of the other, successful, mid-1970's Euro erotica films...the music is haunting and stays with you long after your last orgasim has been completed. I particularly enjoyed the theme of "a middle-aged couple" befriending a young, naive, 18 year old French girl.... and for what else? To de-flower her and then have 3-way sex with her while on vacation with her in Bali!
This film has serious female "bi-sexuality" in it....it portrays a theme I believe most middle aged women, in their hearts, truly desire. You get to see Emmanuelle passionately kissing and making love to a variety of men and women....all done very tastfully and erotically. As opposed to showing two totally naked people, baring their obscene "shaven" genitals and finally "spooing" all over each others faces.
I'd forgotten how many young women had beautiful pubic hair on their genitals, back in the 1970's...until you see this film...perhaps you had forgotten too. I recommend this film for "horny middle aged couples" whose wives are secretly "bi-sexual beasts" ready to drip all over the couch, while they watch beautiful French women masterbating or getting a nude bubble bath from many stunning, petite, Chinese bathhouse [...].
The only thing keeping me from rating this film 5 stars is the rather weak story line....and the toned down sexuality between the stars. If you want a little more sexual tension and realistic "S&M style" floggings, in your old Euro-porn films...try "The Story of O" or even better, "The Image"...Those are two 5 star recommendations.
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Summary: This is a hot movie, without being XXX rated
Review: Perhaps this movie stands out for me, since I saw it as a doubleheader with Emmanuelle I in original movie release. Of the two, it was clearly the more sensual. Yes, there is sex, but clearly there is more sensuality. I have been in S.E.Asia, so I did make a connection (although my time was certainly not like that). The bathhouse scene certainly raises the temperature of the room, and perhaps other things.... This movie certainly captures the time when sex was guiltless and without any health concerns (pre AIDS). This movie certainly is not R rated, but does not have the hard edge that more explicit movies can have. Perhaps one can think of it as how sex could be in a hedonistic environment with no concern of any consequences. This is a good DVD to have in a collection of sensuality.
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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: 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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