Summary of Première: Special issue n°27 Emmanuelle, with Noémie Merlant, Audrey Diwan…
A new version of Emmanuelle will be released in theaters on September 25. To find out everything about this sensual saga, this special edition is essential.
In 1976, the first star to appear on the cover of First was Sylvia Kristel. 48 years later, Emmanuelle is getting ready to return to the cinema, with quite a few changes…
To accompany the release of this film,Audrey Diwan (The event), who co-wrote the film with Rebecca Zlotowski (Other People’s Children) still from the book ofEmmanuelle Arsan (1959), First has put together a special special edition. The program obviously includes interviews with the entire team, the director and her lead actress. Noémie Merlant in the lead.
In addition to focusing on the inspirations ofEmmanuelleon its multiple suites or on its music, the editorial staff also met Camille Moreauauthor specializing in erotic literature, the actress Zahia Deharor even Erica Lusta pioneer of female pornography, and filmmaker Bertrand Mandico, to reflect on the question: how to talk about love and sex in cinema, post-MeToo?
Here is the trailer for the film, followed by the editorial of this new issue, the 27th special edition of First :
Nobody really believed it. And yet. Shot for nothing in Thailand, imagined by a novice producer and filmmaker, Emmanuelle was released in theaters in June 1974 and immediately became a phenomenon. 25 million in revenue (after one year of release), millions of spectators… In the middle of the seventies France, the erotic wanderings of a young woman, a little naive, a little adventurous, who went to discover “ a new world of sexual pleasures” in Bangkok, will become one of the emblems of the liberation of morals.
Fifty years (and a dozen sequels) later, it was time to adapt this story to our times. To take into account the evolution of society (in particular with the new feminism and the consequences of the MeToo tsunami). This is the bias of Audrey Diwan who therefore tackled the sometimes fixed (even archaic) representations of the original film in order to give this story a new resonance. The work of Jaeckin and that of Diwan oppose each other today as much as they dialogue with each other, and this is what we wanted to stage in this special edition which goes back from A to… X on this myth that is still as fascinating.
GAEL GOLHEN
EDITOR IN CHIEF
Emmanuelle by Audrey Diwan is co-produced by Reginald de Guillebon, director
publication of Première, via its production company Chantelouve.
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