French soft-core icon Emmanuelle is returning to screens.
Léa Seydoux is set to play the character in a new film inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan’s erotic novel, with Audrey Diwan, who won the Golden Lion in Venice last year for her abortion drama Happening, set to direct.
Emmanuelle — being launched in the Cannes film market — will mark the English-language debut for Diwan, who developed the script with Rebecca Zlotowski (An Easy Girl). Wild Bunch International and CAA Media Finance will introduce the project to buyers on Wednesday, May 18, in Cannes at a presentation featuring Diwan.
First published in French in 1967, Emmanuelle — which would follow the sexual adventures of the titular character through a series of explicit erotic fantasies — was famously adapted into the 1974 film directed by Just Jaeckin and starring Sylvia Kristel. The film would prove to be hugely popular internationally (and would become Columbia Pictures’ first X-rated release) and lead to a long line of sequels, alongside parodies and low-budget knockoffs (including the Italian series Black Emanuelle, which circumvented copyright issues by altering the spelling).
《Emmanuelle》改編自法國女作家 Emmanuelle Arsan 筆下的同名情色小說，可以說是法國文學史上與《O孃》並列為最知名的當代情色文學。
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「性探險」。
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