50 years after Sylvia Christel’s cult erotic film, Emmanuel returns to the big screen in front of Audrey Dewan’s camera. With Noemi Merlant in the lead role.
director of the event, Audrey Divan shakes up the codes and shifts the focus to an icon who, in her own way, tries to recapture her desire and pleasure. As she judges the customer experience at a palace in Hong Kong, she meets a man who keeps running away from her, summoning within her what she thought she had lost. And the filmmaker films a woman suffering from apnea, who, living only in the control and pleasure of luxury hotels, is no longer able to let go and free herself from the constraints of performance.
Able to blow hot and cold with a look or a movement, both incandescent and glacial, Noemi Merlant is the perfect embodiment of this heroine, with a delicate four-handed penmanship in search of herself. After scanning female pleasure and its mechanisms Easy girlRebecca Zlotowski stars as Audrey Dewan in this script that holds sexual freedom as a mirror of gender and societal issues. An object of male desire, Emmanuel here becomes an object and transcends himself to reclaim his body and his legend.
EmmanuelBy Audrey Dewan, with Noemi Merlant, Will Sharpe, Naomi Watts… In theaters September 25.
Source: Le Figaro