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Produced by | Alain Siritzky[2] |
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Cinematography | Jean-Francis Gondre[1] |
Edited by | Hélène Plemiannikov[1] |
Music by | Michel Magne[1] |
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Distributed by | Cannon Films |
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Running time | 92 minutes[2] |
Country | France[2] |
Language | English |
Box office | 1.227 million admissions (France)[3] |
Emmanuelle 4 (also released as Emmanuelle IV) is 1984 French film in English directed by Francis Leroi and Iris Letans.[4] It is the fourth official theatrical feature film in the Emmanuelle franchise.[4] It is also the last film credit for 1962 Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Michel Magne, as the film-score composer committed suicide in a hotel room ten months after its release.
Sylvia (Sylvia Kristel) is involved in a tormented love affair with Marc (Patrick Bauchau). She has tried to end their love, and escape, but always ends up back with him. After an encounter at a Los Angeles party, she decides she's had enough - she will go to Brazil and get extensive plastic surgery. This way he will never recognize her again, much less find her, and it will make for a great article which she promises to hand in to a California newspaper.
Sylvia goes through with it, and becomes a new woman named Emmanuelle (Mia Nygren); she is now a twenty-year-old virgin. She plans to take on all of Brazil in a series of sexual escapades that will purge her past.
Emmanuelle 4 was released in France on 15 February 1984.[1] On its first week in Paris, the film sold 122,009 tickets.[1] At the end of its theatrical run in Paris, it had sold a total of 455,882.[1]
In a contemporary review, John Pym of the Monthly Film Bulletin stated that "a reach-me-down mish-mash, padded with flashbacks and what appear to be hardcore sequences, and scissored by many hands." The review also commented on the 3D in the film, as "barely noticeable".[2]