Lady Emanuelle (1989) Poster

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3/10
A real snoozer
Woodyanders7 May 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Unhappily married rich lady Emanuelle (luscious brunette knockout Malu) is fed up with both her brutish, overbearing and disgusting lout husband Michael (slimy Gianni Macchia) and other men insensitively treating her like a piece of meat. So Emanuelle dumps Michael and gets involved in a torrid lesbian affair with enticing novelist Leona (gorgeous stunner Micaela Lyonn). Sound good? Well, it sure ain't so good due to Pasquale Fanetti's hopelessly flat and uninspired direction: Fanetti allows the sluggish pace to crawl along at an excruciatingly slow clip, a dull and drippy quality hangs heavy over the entire movie, and the whole thing crucially lacks any much-needed snazzy style or snappy momentum. While the female leads are certainly attractive (and look quite delicious sans clothes), the soft-core sex scenes fail to generate any true heat because of Fanetti's bland presentation. You know a soft-core film isn't working when such seemingly can't miss ingredients as amply tasty distaff nudity, lesbianism, finger sucking, forced rough sex, erotic chopstick action, and voyeurism come across as boring and uninteresting. The insipidly droning mushy synthesizer score definitely doesn't help matters any. Only the sharp, pretty cinematography and the often nude beautiful bodies of the two female leads make this flick at least remotely watchable. But overall it's a total yawnfest.
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1/10
propaganda at its best!
aferdman4 May 2014
No, I don't know how I manage to add this opus to my collection but that's not the point. The point is this is propaganda from somebody who still goes to kindergarten, open his/her mouth when teacher talk, never heard about internet, never visited Akihabara in Tokyo but manage to secure nice budget for his/her point of ??? Yes, only attractive and rich people participate, there is some mentioning of some diaries for unknown purpose, all men have sex fully clothed and instead of women we see female species who are thinking they are apex of universe. Of course no reason to show skin in such serious movie but call men animals really cool. If you will try to compare this flick to D'Amato worst you still ahead of game. As I am not suppose to write a spoiler you should read others reviews.
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8/10
Pretty people, nice music, tender story
vinnienh22 July 2001
This Italo-erotic movie certainly ranks among the better efforts of the genre, it has a nice, romantic yet simple story, goodlooking actresses (Malu, Micaela) and very handsome men! The stylish look of the settings are great and the music is beautiful.
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