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Audrey Diwan On Why Her ‘Emmanuelle’ Is Not A Remake Of Original Cult Movie: “I’ve Never Watched The First Film”
Noémie Merlant plays a woman trying to reclaim her sense of pleasure while staying at a luxury hotel in Hong Kong.
French director Audrey Diwan is opening the San Sebastian Film Festival this evening with her third feature Emmanuelle, in the company of its star Noémie Merlant and supporting cast members Will Sharpe, Chacha Huang and Jamie Campbell Bower. The work sparked a franchise of erotic, soft porn films, kicking off with Just Jaeckin’s 1975 cult movie, starring Sylvia Kristel as a woman who joins her diplomat husband in Bangkok where she embarks on a series of sexual adventures. Bored and feeling stifled by her outwardly luxurious existence as she hangs out in the hotel’s high-end facilities, Emmanuelle attempts to shake herself out of her emotional torpor with a series of fleeting sexual encounters with staff members and guests.
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