Emmanuelle

2024 1h 45m EN

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4.8

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★4.8TMDB · 141

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While traveling, Emmanuelle meets Kei, a man who constantly eludes her. Though she indulges in the many alluring distractions, she can’t shake their chance encounter. Will she submit to her basest desires to forge a deeper relationship?

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Noémie Merlant
Emmanuelle
Will Sharpe
Kei
Naomi Watts
Margot
Jamie Campbell Bower
Sir John
Chacha Huang
Zelda
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
The Eye
Harrison Arevalo
Man in the Plane
Marguerite Dabrin
Flight Attendant

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Audrey Diwan
Writers: Rebecca Zlotowski, Audrey Diwan
Languages: Mandarin, French, English
Countries: France

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MONEY

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Earned back only 4% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 2 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Mandarin, French, English.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Audrey Diwan, shot by Laurent Tangy. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Evgueni Galperine. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Pauline Gaillard shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Noémie Merlant and Will Sharpe and Naomi Watts carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt20247888 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Audrey Diwan directs. Laurent Tangy behind the camera. Evgueni Galperine scores. Pauline Gaillard cuts. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in France. Dialogue in Mandarin, French, English.

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1Earned back only 4% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
2Released 2 years ago.
3Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Mandarin, French, English.
4Directed by Audrey Diwan, shot by Laurent Tangy. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Evgueni Galperine. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Pauline Gaillard shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Noémie Merlant and Will Sharpe and Naomi Watts carry the top of the cast.
8IMDB entry: tt20247888 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 11 themes, including "based on novel or book", "bangkok, thailand", "remake", "female protagonist".

The technical file

Cinematography: Laurent Tangy
Original score: Evgueni Galperine
Editing: Pauline Gaillard
Production design: Katia Wyszkop
Costume design: Jürgen Doering
Makeup / hair: Virginie Duranteau
VFX supervisor: Thomas Duval
Sound: Marc Doisne
Runtime: 105 min · 1h 45m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $19,000,000
Box office: $712,413
Return: 4% of budget
Original language: EN
IMDB: Emmanuelle (2024)

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Martin Oaks2026-07-20
★ 2/10
Dying of political correctness The new (and umpteenth) version of "Emmanuelle," directed by the young Audrey Diwan, presents itself to today's contemporary audience as a flagrant monument to modernity and sexual sophistication. Yet, the stench of today's sanctimonious puritanism manifests as an almost clinical panic toward the flesh, preferring instead a sterile staging that mistakes elegance for inhibition. This self-censorship is not limited to the visual; it also infects an absurd script through a domesticated, timid language that systematically shuns any hint of verbal naturalness. Instead of calling a spade a spade and employing real, natural, lascivious, and uninhibited words like "pussy" or "panties," the film submerges itself in a tide of ridiculously squeamish euphemisms like "crotch" or "underwear," revealing a reverent fear of discomforting an audience whose tolerance level is already severely atrophied. When contrasting this exercise in neurotic restraint with the authentic erotic cinema of the 1980s, the generational and artistic disconnect becomes unsustainable. In that golden decade, creators of the caliber of Jesús Franco, Bruno Mattei, Erwin C. Dietrich, Gerard Damiano, or Joe D'Amato conceived magnetic fictions where, even without the need to fall into explicit pornography, sex throbbed as an intrinsic driving force of the cinematic narrative. Those directors and their casts maintained a tacit, brave commitment to the production; there was no blushing, no averted glances, but rather an honest surrender to the game of seduction within a fully erotic context that respected human nature. No one hid behind intellectualized discourses to justify the camera's timidity, because the body was not a taboo, but an anatomical and artistic truth. Diwan's current version is nothing but another example of the refusal to progress or evolve artistically, as we all lock ourselves inside a bubble of political correctness and prudishness that ultimately suffocates desire. This "Emmanuelle" becomes the reflection of a society that has ceased to be free, a society that restricts itself and cowers back into its own shell, transforming the boldness of yesteryear into a cold, dispassionate, bureaucratic chore that transmits absolutely nothing.

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