Emmanuelle

Film is a series of glossy images and appears more a come-on for the civil service than for femme lib.

Very glossy, very French voyage into sexual discovery that mingles cliché and elegant posturing with an attempt to broaden the horizons of the sex film.

It's a relief, during a time of cynicism in which sex is supposed to sell anything, to find a skin flick that's a lot better than it probably had to be.

Though it is more historically significant than any other softcore porno ever made, it just isn't that memorable an exploitation film.

One of the classics of soft-core erotic cinema.

All in all, a somewhat tedious but occasionally amusing period romp.

First time director Just Jaecklin's film is the movie that set the clichés for the soft core films to follow.