50 years after the first version, which has now become cult, this new film by Audrey Diwan is already making waves.
Female desirea fascinating subject for the world of cinema. We find him with Daphne in The Bridgerton Chronicles who discovers the secrets of the wedding night, or in 50 Shades of Grey, with Anastasia Steele who gives in to the very particular tastes of Christian Grey. From now on, directors reinvent eroticism through more subtlety. On September 25, 2024, Audrey Diwan reclaims Emmanuellethe 1974 film by Just Jaeckinalongside Noémie Merlant who plays the leading role in his work. A news Emmanuelle which does not offer a very good start…
The cinema scandal of the seventies
We are in 1974, Emmanuelle has just been released. Just Jaeckin doesn’t know it yet, but he has just written his name in the history of cinema. With 9 million spectators in France and nearly fifty million worldwide, Emmanuelle is the revolutionary film of the year. Enigmatic for some, intriguing for others, the film is disturbing, but above all, disrupts and democratizes eroticism on the big screen. Adapted from the eponymous bestseller byEmmanuelle Arsan from 1959, this film evokes the story of Emmanuelle, played by Sylvia Kristel, who lets herself be guided by her different erotic desires. In the heart of Bangkok, she will go from discovery to discovery and will learn about many practices that she didn’t even know existed. On September 25, 2024, Audrey Diwan who we know for The event (2021), signs his own Emmanuelle and proposes “the complete opposite of pornography“, she explains in an interview for Le Télégramme. Despite the presence of certain elements from the first film, this 2.0 version does not appeal to everyone.
A 2024 version that struggles to convince
With a rating of 1.7 on Allocinéthe positive feedback fromEmmanuelle of Audrey Diwan remain weak. Indeed, many criticisms criticize a too slow pace and flat dialogues. The legendary rattan armchair of the first version was deliberately overshadowed by Audrey Diwan, who wishes to distance herself from Just Jaeckin’s film so as not to make a carbon copy of it. A bias that may surprise more than one person, expecting to find the essential details of the original film. In this version which takes place in a luxury hotel in Hong Kong, Emmanuelle (Noémie Merlant) is a young woman alone, which multiplies relationships and indulges in carnal pleasures. However, Kei, a young man she meets there, will never cease to intrigue her, but above all to escape her. Follows a permanent quest for Emmanuelle who will upset all her senses. If some blame this remake for its lack of aesthetics, others point out his audacity and his sublime plans. “This film allows us to reconnect with female pleasure and for that BRAVO.” notes an Allociné review. In order to form your own opinion, Emmanuelle is waiting for you in your cinema.
