“E-‘MAY’NUELLE”
FORMAT: VHS
Austrian beauty Natalie Uher takes over for Monique Gabrielle as Emmanuelle. She’s not a particularly great actress, but she does kinda look like Sylvia Kristel a little bit. She also looks great naked, so that’s all you really need to know.
This time out, Emmanuelle is suffering from amnesia. It seems that she and a bus full of models headed down to the Amazon for a photo shoot. There, they wound up prisoners of a drug lord who also stole a stash of priceless gems the ladies were traveling with. Eventually, she escaped with the help of a sexy native girl.
Like Emmanuelle 5, this was another case where a master of erotic cinema directed about half the movie due to its chaotic production. In this case, softcore vampire impresario Jean Rollin took over after the original director quit. And as with the previous installment, it suffers from a fractured narrative. It’s obvious that all the “present day” scenes with Emmanuelle and her shrink is less about trying to jog her memory and more about cobbling together a nearly unfinished movie.
The plot is similar to Emmanuelle 5 as well. This time, instead of being captured by a horny sheik, she’s captured by a horny drug lord. It’s important to make these distinctions when you’re spending a month watching Emmanuelle movies and rip-offs.
It’s also curiously lacking the fun of the earlier entries in the series. We will occasionally get glimpses of the playful eroticism the franchise is known for (like when Emmanuelle seduces a sailor in the ship's boiler room and steam symbolically escapes behind them during the height of their passion), but there’s not quite as many as you would expect. What it doesn’t lack is gratuitous nudity, so it skates by on the sheer acreage of skin alone. I will say it is a definite step down from Part 5 in just about every department though.
AKA: Emmanuelle 6: Wild Paradise.
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