Good Bye Emmanuelle!

So Long French treesome lover!

I always knew who Sylvia Kristel was. Even ages before I was old enought to rent/buy one of her films. In the 70's she was the actress in charge of giving life to Emmanuelle, a young and sexy french girl looking for the pleasures of free love, AKA sex with everyone she got horny enough. Today's entry is the third and final instalment in the saga with the original sex godess Sylvia Kristel. This time around, the action shifts to the beautiful and exotic Seychelles Islands, where the lovely and sexually liberated Emmanuelle finds herself questioning her beliefs about sex, and about love. This elegantly filmed third installment begins like the others, with the architect's wife meeting and having sexual encounters with the attractive cast of men and women on the island. Before long however, the film shifts gears, when a young and extremely handsome film director enters the picture, and awakens in Emmanuelle, some feelings that she thought had long ago been buried.

Yes, this is french sexploitation!

Menáge de a Trois.

Goodbye Emmanuelle was released in 1977 and directed by Francois Leterrier. The final chapter in the series (at least for Sylvia Kristel it was the final chapter), wrapps everything up in a smart, believable way. This moral fable makes the point that open relationships, complete with anonymous sex, can become a very lonely and sad way to live (believe it o not pals) Emmanuelle begins to realize that her husband's guise of carefree sexuality, is merely a way to hide his own insecurities. When put to the test, he fails miserably, by resorting to petty lies and games to hold onto the woman, that he realizes too late, really loves and depends on. If this does not sound like the storyline for an erotic film, it is because this is not really an erotic film. The sex scenes,  as opposed with the prequels,  are kept to a minimum, and when there is an erotic scene, unfortunately the camera does not linger for long. In fact, these scenes appear to have been a mere after-thought, taking a back seat to the more serious drama at hand.

Sylvia Kristel's Orgasm Face.

She had great tits.

Viewed as a stand-alone feature, Goodbye Emmanuelle plays like a slightly above-average melodrama, it's gorgeous cinematography elevating it a cut above the rest. But when viewed in context with the other two films in the series, this becomes something very special indeed. For during these three very different films, we see this character Emmanuelle evolve according to what was really happening in the rise and fall of the saucy 70's free love culture. Let's look back at the first two instalments from the Kristel era trilogy: In the first movie, Emmanuelle is a young and innocent girl, with somewhat traditional views on sexuality and marriage. She is taught, by various friends about open marriage, and carnal desire. In the second movie, Emmanulle has traded her short, severe hairstyle, for a long, flowing mane of red hair, indicating her newfound "freedom." Viewing these two films back to back, it is amazing how different she is in the second installment. By the time she settles down in the Seychelles Islands with her husband, she has changed yet again, and she no longer carries herself with the same air of self confidence. Rather, she appears to be uncertain about the direction of her life. Perhaps Sylvia Kristel was not given enough credit for her acting abilities. She carries these films alone, and does an unforgettable job lending this fictional character an authenticity seldom seen in film.

Emmanuelle fucking in the beach.

Emmanuelle looked hot after sex.

For diehard fans of the series, Goodbye Emmanuelle is the weakest of them all in terms of the quality and quantity of the sex scenes, offering us a more down to earth vision of what would really happened into a woman's life, if she was to become a sex machine willing to share her body with everyone close enough. Of the three films, is the most understated, and most elegantly-filmed of the series.

French invented the word "Partuza"

70's actresses were so smoking hot.

Who said blondes were cheap?

Overall, an erotic french movie with hot actresses who will give you what you want to see, but wait! there's more! an interesting plot that looks and feels more close to reality than to the fantasy world depicted in most erotic and porn movies where everyone just wants to get laid and there are little or no plots at all.

Here's the movie trailer:

And here the amazing movie's main theme: