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Black Emmanuelle, White Emmanuelle
After
some successful episodes of "Emanuelle" and after its various spin-offs,
including "Laure", the most obvious thing, was
to continue the successful series and to meet two characters who had a great success and, as we know, light the fantasies of the audience.
It's Brunello Rondi, most famous as a writer (worked on the script of
"8 e mezzo" and "La Dolce Vita") who takes
the opportunity of the meeting between Laura Gemser and Annie
Belle, Rondi is also the
brother of a well-known movie reviewer, and takes the block of
actors of "Emanuelle" and add the two most important characters of "Laure" and settling all in
a very conventional Egypt.
Unfortunately not always the collaborations and the relationships works, because it would be obvious to
expect a good, if not great film, from Rondi who instead creates a movie with
intellectuals and erotic theme in the "Emanuelle" serie .
It's obvious before we talk about the script and the
realization that the intellectuals intens with a the genre (so define it)
"Emanuelle" don't works. The heroin
has many merits, it's free, strong, feminist, non-trivial, but it
is certainly far from the study of being, from the worries of the life and
also frome the intellectual cinema in which Rondi tries to enter with disastrously results.
The
screenplay was supposed to be a strength, but it's a slow series of human problems, involving as many boring characters. Everybody are in Egypt, all struggling with stories of love and sex and psychological problems. An
infinite series and continued doubts of human, driven by
characters who should be the representation of the society. Boredom
assails us after a few minutes and only Laura Gemser and Annie Belle
give a reason to reactivate the brains (certainly not
because of their acting!). To
tell the truth there are even more scenes exquisitely trash who are
worth to see: Emanuelle, which here is a model, laying in the middle of
corpses, an orgy with animal sacrifie and a series of soft-core scenes,
which arise from absurd situations.
It
's hard to follow this story that brings us under the pyramids and in
the home of Crystal (played by Nieves Navarro starred in many genre
films), a three times married woman, who lives with her daughter Magda
in a huge house. There
converge Laure (Annie Belle course) other daughter of Crystal, the model
Emanuelle, with photographer Carlo (Gabriele Tinti), a kind of hippie
guru, Anthony, (Al Cliver), and a former silent film actor, starred by
Feodor Chaliapin Jr. Feodor was an actor of a certain thickness and he was the son of a great
opera singer and a dancer, and in the first part of his career he has
starred in big productions, before entering in the seventies in
Italian genre films, and before come back in 80's in big movies (for example, "Il Nome Della Rosa", "Inner Circle" and "Moonstruck").
Returning
to the big house in which all converge, Laure brings havoc with her libertine
style that affects everyone. Emanuelle subdued by Carlo, her sister Magda that is unleashed and the mother who discovers that Antonio is a kind of charlatan.
The
wonderful Annie Belle is the central character, disruptive, that breaks
the mold, in a film in which, to tell the truth, all break. Something else.
Fact Sheet
Original Title: Black Velvet
Alternative
Titles: Black Emmanuelle, White Emmanuelle, Black Velvet, Naked
Paradise (International), Emanuelle Viciosa (Spain), Emmanuelle
Vicieuse, Vicieuse et manuelle, Vicieuse et perverse (France), Mavro
veloudo if harsh Metaxi (Greece), Veludo Preto, Seda Branca (Portugal), Emanuelle in Egypt (USA - cut version), Smooth Velvet, Raw Silk (English title)
Year: 1976
Director: Brunello Rondi
Cast: Laura Gemser, Annie Belle, Al Cliver, Nieves Navarro, Gabriele Tinti, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Ziggy Zanger
Duration: 92 '
Production House: Rekord Films
