It also made a huge amount of money.
Both are based on Emmanuelle Arsans pseudonymous 1967 novel, structured in the same way.
Scene for scene, character for character, Diwan attempts to bang the originals balls back across the net.
‘Emmanuelle’Goodfellas
Its almost an exact repeat of the original.
This certainly does put a new spin on things.
Emmanuelle, however, is having no fun at all.
Would that man come or not?
After that, nothing.
Thats one odd thing.
They know its happening.
Perhaps performing for the camera is like looking in the mirror, another kind of auto-eroticism.
His professional specialty is building dams to contain the rising oceans.
Its profitable but, as he tells her, completely pointless: the ocean will win in the end.
In fact, there is a kind of intriguing oddness to thiserotica nouveau.
Through another lens, however, the whole undertaking would look as impotently pointless as one of Keis dams.
Which it really is, weighed down by that name.
What were they thinking?
