Emmanuelle 4

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Emmanuelle 4
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Directed by
  • Francis Leroi
  • Iris Letans [1]
Screenplay by
  • Francis Leroi
  • Iris Letans [1]
Produced by Alain Siritzky [2]
Starring
CinematographyJean-Francis Gondre [1]
Edited byHélène Plemiannikov [1]
Music by Michel Magne [1]
Production
companies
  • Alain Siritzky Productions
  • Sara Films [1]
Distributed by Cannon Films
Release date
  • 15 February 1984 (1984-02-15)(France)
Running time
92 minutes [2]
CountryFrance [2]
LanguageEnglish
Box office1.227 million admissions (France) [3]

Emmanuelle 4 is 1984 English-language French film directed by Francis Leroi and Iris Letans. [4] It is a sequel to 1977's Goodbye Emmanuelle , and the fourth installment in the film series of the same name. [4] It is also the first film in the series to be filmed in English instead of French.

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The film is also the last film credit for 1962 Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Michel Magne, as the film-score composer committed suicide in a hotel room ten months after its release. It was followed by a sequel, Emmanuelle 5 , released in 1984.

Plot

Sylvia (Sylvia Kristel) is involved in a tormented love affair with Marc (Patrick Bauchau). She has tried to end their love, and escape, but always ends up back with him. After an encounter at a Los Angeles party, she decides she's had enough – she will go to Brazil and get extensive plastic surgery. This way he will never recognize her again, much less find her, and it will make for a great article which she promises to hand in to a California newspaper.

Sylvia goes through with it, and becomes a new woman named Emmanuelle (Mia Nygren); she is now a twenty-year-old virgin. She plans to take on all of Brazil in a series of sexual escapades that will purge her past.

Cast

Release

Emmanuelle 4 was released in France on 15 February 1984. [1] On its first week in Paris, the film sold 122,009 tickets. [1] At the end of its theatrical run in Paris, it had sold a total of 455,882. [1]

Reception

In a contemporary review, John Pym of the Monthly Film Bulletin stated that "a reach-me-down mish-mash, padded with flashbacks and what appear to be hardcore sequences, and scissored by many hands." The review also commented on the 3D in the film, as "barely noticeable". [2]

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