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Goodbye, Emmanuelle
n010 0709 06 Dec 81
BC-MOVIE-REVIEW
''Goodbye, Emmanuelle''
By JOHN CORRY
c. 1981 N.Y. Times News Service
NEW YORK - The folks in ''Goodbye, Emmanuelle'' have sex not just in
twos, but in threes and fours. It is wearisome after a while, for
them and for us, but we have the advantage - we can look at the
Seychelles, where the movie was filmed, while they, poor things, can
only look at one another. The background of ''Goodbye, Emmanuelle''
is made up of lush, lazy pictures of the islands in the Indian Ocean;
the foreground is made up of bodies, some of them positively
acrobatic. The scenery wins every time.
Consider, for example, a scene in which Emmanuelle, the adorable,
but here somewhat wooden, Sylvia Kristel, couples in the surf with
her new lover. They are really quite good at it, briny but balletic.
(Did we really once think that Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster had
the last word on that in ''From Here to Eternity?'') The curious
thing is that it's the surf that gets to you. The sex is OK, but once
is enough really, and in the movie they go at it for ever so long.
The surf, meanwhile, sparkles.
''Goodbye, Emmanuelle,'' the fourth in the ''Emmanuelle'' series
with Miss Kristel as the star, is about some rich white trash, living
in teak houses, decorated with Bloomingdale's best rattans and
fabrics. They are unhappy, however, even if they pretend they're not.
''Making love is my main interest in life,'' Emmanuelle says to the
new lover. ''Doesn't it get a bit monotonous?'' he asks. In fact, he
is even a little bit shocked.
So, Emmanuelle thinks it over. Does she really want to stay with her
architect-husband? Money and decadence are fun for a time - the
husband gets his jollies from threesomes - but what about love, the
monogamous kind? The lover, a film director, returns to Paris.
Emmanuelle, chucking the kinkiness, decides to follow. So, goodbye,
Emmanuelle.
The question in the movie is whether Francois Leterrier, its
director, was so absorbed in the lovemaking that he just allowed the
scenery to creep in, or whether he put it in on purpose. Maybe it
doesn't matter. There is also a very nice scene in a Seychelles
nightclub. Everyone shakes pleasingly to down-home music. It is a
mixture of reggae and Cajun, and you will wish it lasted longer.
nyt-12-06-81 1009est
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