Nitehawk Naughties goes on the trip of a lifetime to Bangkok with EMMANUELLE. 

Includes surprise goodies courtesy of our partner, Babeland! Plus, The Strand will be on hand to sell a curated selection of erotic before the screening!

THE PORN: EMMANUELLE (Un film de Just Jaeckin)

This debut film by photographer Just Jaeckin, Emmanuelle explicitly details the sexual awakening of a young model (Sylvia Kristel) that unfolds when she travels to meet her French diplomat husband in Bangkok. With an intent to cure Emmanuelle (and presumably society too) of the predilection to associate sex with love, the film explores a very open relationship she has with her husband, Jean, and her new friend, Marie-Anne, as each introduces new lovers, both men and women, into the equation in increasingly intense measures. This soft-core porn is fairly faithful to the novel Emmanuelle on which it’s based and it rides the wave of the rise of hardcore pornography and erotic films like Last Tango in Paris that were popular amongst mainstream audiences in the early 1970s. It’s the spawn of numerous sequels but none seem to match the Je ne sais quoi of the original.

Part of the 2016 Nitehawk Naughties OOH LA LA program in partnership with Babeland.