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.

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Emmanuelle: The Softcore Hit That Played the Multiplex