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...that once she tries it she'll like it--is unconvincing. Emmanuelle, in her unfailingly dumb, wondering way, never leaves any doubt that in the end she'll give in, she'll assimilate in the most predictable way possible, not with a bang but with a whimper. Sylvia Kristel as Emmanuelle is tall and leggy but her only notion of acting seems to be to widen her eyes. As in the most hard-core pornography, a threadbare plot exists only to bring on more skin and to make the idea of watching people make love for two hours seem continually...
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...