It’s a surprise to find out that director Audrey Diwan had never seen the original Emmanuelle — a gauzy soft-porn feature that got la toute France hot and bothered when it was allowed to be ...

Dutch film star Sylvia Kristel made more than 50 movies but none brought as much fame, and notoriety, as "Emmanuelle," which became a classic of the sexually liberated 1970s.

On paper, a contemporary feminist spin on “Emmanuelle” sounds like a zesty idea. An ostensible portrait of liberated female sexuality firmly ossified in patriarchal politics, Just Jaeckin’s ...

To mark the 50th anniversary of the erotic French film that made soft porn mainstream cinema, it's had a 21st Century reboot – but will it match the success of the original?

Award-winning French director Audrey Diwan updates the original 70s erotic film with a strangely dispassionate and pointless drama that proves to be one massive anti-climax.

French director Just Jaeckin, the creator of the famous erotic cult film Emmanuelle, has died at the age of 82 after a long illness. It was announced by French press yesterday (Wednesday 7 ...

Noémie Merlant is inscrutable as Emmanuelle in this Hong Kong-set update of the cult 1974 erotic film that’s more tasteful than titillating.

Perhaps there’s empowering intent behind the film’s sexual restraint, positioning the modern Emmanuelle as a woman of control and discernment.

On paper, a contemporary feminist spin on “Emmanuelle” sounds like a zesty idea. An ostensible portrait of liberated female sexuality firmly ossified in patriarchal politics, Just Jaeckin’s 1974 ...