Emmanuelle 5 is Polish surrealist Walerian Borowczyk's penultimate theatrical feature, a film whose merits are hotly debated among cult and artfilm lovers. Some see the movie as nothing more than a commercial sell-out, others as an interesting addition to his body of work.
In 1985, ASP films (owner of the Emmanuelle franchise since the first official feature) approached cult director Borowczyk (notorious for his heavily erotic art films) to helm ...
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Emmanuelle 5 is Polish surrealist Walerian Borowczyk's penultimate theatrical feature, a film whose merits are hotly debated among cult and artfilm lovers. Some see the movie as nothing more than a commercial sell-out, others as an interesting addition to his body of work.
In 1985, ASP films (owner of the Emmanuelle franchise since the first official feature) approached cult director Borowczyk (notorious for his heavily erotic art films) to helm the latest Emmanuelle feature, and he accepted, excited by the idea of giving a fresh new spin on the series. He was to be in conflict with his producers soon after though, first over the casting of his lead actress, and later for his abstract imagery and "too arty" script.
Some Borowczyk fans consider Emmanuelle 5 an inferior work, and claim he didn't actually direct anything but the "film within a film" Love Express sequence. This was mostly because he utilized a series of assistant directors for certain exteriors, namely the Cannes and...
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