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EMMANUELLE TRIES to make the long climb from pornography to pornographic art and gets tangled up in some embarrassing place in between. At first this big budget, soft-core, high-class porn flick seems to be just a confused attempt to rival Last Tango in Paris as a sophisticated X. rated movie--that the ads promise "will change the meaning of X." Not content with just visual eroticism, director Just Jaeckin tries to convince us that he's making a serious philosophical statement on human sensuality. He fails not so much because he lack the originality...
...raising his eyebrows. After a minute he too heaves out of his seat and wooden faced, strides manfully down the aisle picks up Emmanuelle and carries her into the bathroom to more incredulous laughter from the audience. What follows is a direct steal from the first scene of Last Tango, its perhaps reverent plagiarism ruined as an erotic image by the fact that Emmanuelle is sitting on the sink in what must be pure pain...
...Last Tango in Paris, Friday and Saturday...
...Last Tango in Paris. This has suffered in the year and a half since it came out, inevitably, after the fuss Pauline Kael generated, and the erratic nature of her criticism since then. That famous "it has altered the face of an art form" review was almost a watershed in her work. But the problem was that she shifted the emphasis the wrong way--toward sex, and played into the hands of the newsmagazines who turned it into a lurid porno flick at worst and a "shockingly honest" film at best, though they would have done that anyway. In fact...
...Last Tango in Paris, 4, 8:25 p.m.; Streetcar Named Desire, 6:15, 10:45 p.m. (both thru Saturday); Triumph of the Will, Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 p.m.; Happy New Year, 7, 7:45, 11:30 p.m. (Sunday thru Tuesday...