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Emmanuelle (1974) is legendary. Not in any way because the Just Jaeckin classic is an amazing movie, but because it became widely known for two main things:

1) The boundary pushing eroticism of an adventurous woman seeking sexual emancipation/discovery.

2) Sylvia Kristel, a then 22 year-old, who became an icon of perfect beauty.

Although I have never been a fan of remakes, Emmanualle lends itself well to a reimaging simply because sexual attitudes change over time and the original is now over 50 years old.

Emmanuelle (2024) is actually better than I was expecting. The cinematography is especially beautiful, and the tone rather stylish. Noémie Merlant is elegant, somewhat similar looking to a young Phoebe Waller-Bridge, yet her breasts are just as equally voluptuous as that of Kristel's.

Does the movie push the boundaries of today as the '74 classic once did? No, and although it could have well done this, Emmanuelle conciously refrains from drifting into being a piece of generic sleaze by limiting the nudity/sex to where it feels appropriate. Emmanuelle's journey to sexual enlightenment could have had a clearer narrative however.

The addition of Naomi Watts was a rather delightful piece of casting, but regretfully she does not partake in any sexy shenanigans.

Overall, Emmanuelle '24 is a nice enough update. Yet it won't be a significant title 50 years from now or topple the original's reputation.

Only my deathbed, I will remember this movie and think, "wow, I absolutely threw almost 2 hours away there for nothing. I wish I hadn't".

Seriously though, this is absolute trash. It's predicatable, generic in every way possible and on top of that, there's a major cringe factor to say the very least.

I can't understand the posive reviews on here and would generally put those down to the cast and crew (and their family members) trying to give this movie a push before the word of mouth starts to circulate.

Aside from the vile person that Amy is in real life, she's literally just playing the same character as in all her other movies.

Skip it.

Jealousy is another title from the Vivamax series of movies aimed at adults. Now, these movies are just pure titillation with a decent story thrown in to keep the interest, so expectations should be set as such. Although I have seen a bunch of these movies already, I actually found Jealousy to be a little more engaging than some of the others.

First of all it should be noted that the casting director struck movie gold here by hiring Angela Morena, Micaella Raz & Stephanie Raz to play the three lead sisters, since they are all sisters in real life. Name me one other movie where three actual (beautiful) sisters are willing to bounce their bare b**bs like it's a Lakers game? I'll wait... And with that unique hook in mind, Jealousy becomes much more of a movie event for every b**b loving male (and female) around the world.

The third act may drag somewhat, but I kind of feel like this movie should dethrone Die Hard for best Christmas* movie ever.

*There's no actual Christmas in this movie, unless you put tinsel on your TV whilst watching it.