Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film does achieve one of its goals. Its exquisite photography makes it truly erotic, at least for a while. Shot in Bangkok, the film is stunningly exotic and a constant visual delight, and Jaeckin placed the most beautiful bodies he could find against this rich background. He knows how to make women and scenery look breathtaking. Yet he relies so heavily on static concepts of photography that the effects wears off rather quickly. His characters seem posed and reposed for visual effect, instead of directed for dramatic effect, so that the action bogs down after the first half hour. Aimless...
...scattered incidents, the election-like the campaign-was remarkably trouble-free. That may not be the case for the next government. The voters failed to give anything remotely resembling a majority to any of the 42 parties that fielded 2,191 candidates for the 269-member National Assembly. One Bangkok newspaper headlined: CONFUSION...
Hectic Coupling. The movie is fussy, overdecorated, and tricked out with a silly plot about a young woman's discovery of the ultimate turn-on. Emmanuelle (Sylvia Kristel) is the wife of a French diplomat in Bangkok who encourages her to fall into any kind and combination of sexual escapades to fur ther her erotic education. He even urges her into the arms of an aging sybarite (Alain Cuny), who wows her with such metaphysical pronouncements as "True love is erection, not the orgasm...
...being arranged for a department-store window display. The exotic Far Eastern locations make for a few postcard snaps and a lot of unintentionally hilarious dialogue. Murmurs a sapphic archaeologist setting up a rendezvous with Emmanuelle: "Come to the klongal 2." Had Terry Southern been involved, the city of Bangkok might have been the occasion for a few robust puns. But that, like much else, presumably does not translate...
...only U.S. carrier serving that country; Pan Am in return will surrender all but one of its flights to France, Portugal, Spain and Morocco. Both carriers will trim their U.S.-to-London schedules. Pam Am will get most of TWA's transpacific routes to such places as Bangkok, Guam and Bombay, but will turn over to TWA its share of the heavily traveled route from the mainland U.S. to Hawaii...