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Emmanuelle: The Softcore Hit That Played the Multiplex

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000

In 1974 a French sex film opened in a respectable Paris cinema and simply refused to close. Emmanuelle, directed by the former fashion photographer Just Jaeckin, ran for years on the Champs-Élysées, became one of the most commercially successful films France had ever produced, and did something no sex picture had quite managed before: it made the genre chic. Couples went. Critics debated it. The poster — a young woman in a wicker peacock chair — became one of the most reproduced images of the decade. Softcore had put on a silk dressing gown and walked through the front door of the multiplex.

Vixen!: The Film That Made Softcore Respectable at the Box Office

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The number is the story. Vixen! cost Russ Meyer somewhere in the region of seventy-six thousand dollars to make in 1968 and went on to earn millions — estimates run past six or seven million, a return so lopsided that it changed the arithmetic of an entire industry. Hollywood had assumed that sex on screen belonged to the disreputable margins, to the raincoat crowd and the fleapit. Meyer proved it could play to couples, turn a colossal profit, and get itself reviewed in respectable papers. Everything that followed in mainstream erotic cinema owes a debt to this modest, garish, self-financed picture.