Emmanuelle V (1987)

Directors:

Steve Barnett
Walerian Borowczyk

Writers:

Emmanuelle Arsan (novel)
Walerian Borowczyk (writer)

Release Date:

7 January 1987 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

[American version.] Emmanuelle has a streak of bad luck that starts when she is stripped by a mob of adoring fans at the Cannes Film Festival...

Plot Keywords:

Cannes Film Festival | Harem | Clothes Ripping | Roman Numeral In Title | Run

Cast

Monique Gabrielle	...	Emmanuelle
Crofton Hardester	...	Eric
Dana Burns Westburg	...	Charles Foster
Bryan Shane
Yaseen Khan	...	Rajid
Julie Miklas	...	Linda
Pamm Vlastas	...	Suvi
Max Strom	...	Talking Soldier
Heidi Paine	...	Girl No. 1
Roxanna Michaels	...	Girl No. 2
Michele Burger	...	Girl No. 3
Marie Chocolat
Marie Vanille
Isabelle Strawa
Muriel Catau

Also Known As:

Emmanuelle 5 (UK) (video title)

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

USA | France

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Singapore:(Banned) | Finland:K-18 | France:-16 | USA:R | West Germany:18 (nf)

Filming Locations:

Réunion

Company:

AS Productions

Quotes:

Emmanuelle: What's the matter? Why are you so shy? Have you never seen a naked woman before?
Eric: No, I mean yes. I have seen a lot of naked women before.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Scary Movie (2000)

Little to do with Emmanuelle maybe, but fun!

For Monique Gabrielle, "Emmanuelle 5" did not become a long lasting breakthrough, but kept her in business. The story is pretty straight: Emmanuelle is kidnapped by Rajid who locks her up in his harem. Rajid behaves like a dictator and snores: "Women are weak", so he obviously didn't get to know Emmanuelle well enough yet. Friends of Emmanuelle want to rescue her, but wait until plenty of women inside the harem have been filmed long enough ;-).

Director Borowczyk was celebrating the character of Emmanuelle: "She is free, without prejudice, and she has confidence in herself" (quoted from "Cinema" 4/87). And she even gets a machine gun this time which makes confidence easier, I bet... Even though is has very little to do with the original Emmanuelle, Vol.5 is at least fun, moving faster than any other contribution to the series. The scene which sticks to everybody's mind is right at the beginning, when an enthusiastic crowd tears Emmanuelle's clothes off at a film festival, so her only escape is a jump on a yacht whose owner is understandably bewildered. I voted 7/8/6/4/6/7 for the six cinema films of the series.