Movie review – “Emmanuelle” (1974) **

Danny Peary did an excellent review of this film most of which I pretty much agree with – Sylvia Kristel is what makes it work, with this incredible innocent-yet-sensual-and-unaware-of-her-own-nudity appeal; there are genuinely erotic scenes involving other women. But then towards the end Emmanuelle must be tamed by men, and Alan Cuny’s character is uncomfortably dodgy. (To be fair, the third one in the series, Goodbye Emmanuelle, did attempt to tackle the difficulties of an “open marriage”)