Emilienne

In the wake of the world and French success of "Emmanuelle" with the stunning Silvia Kristel as the erotic heroine, producers went searching for other erotic material to be made into an erotic movie in the hope to get a piece of cake that the world was discovering. The novel by Claude des Olbes was removed from its dust and rewritten into this movie. Everything what the movie "Emmanuelle" makes as an erotic experience lacks this movie. Starting at the top with its heroine down to the script, production, setting, story, actors...Both movies are as opposite as black and white. As colorful and mysterious Sylvia Kristel is as Emmanuelle so flat and stuffed is Betty Mars as Emilienne. She is so boring and uninteresting as a character that you wonder why her husband did not go sooner in a relationship with a younger woman. Seeing Kristel as Emmanuelle gives you the notion that she is capable of leading a life that she lives with her husband and lovers (male and female) in an exotic locale like Bangkok, Bali, Hong Kong...Emilienne as a movie gives you such a claustrophobic bourgeois feeling in Paris/France and their houses that the only thing comes to your mind is to get out of the room screaming longing for fresh air and sunshine. Emilienne is a movie only for those who would like to torture their brain or would like to have a good laugh.