Emmanuelle 4

{{short description|1984 film by Francis Leroi}} {{Infobox film | name = Emmanuelle 4 | image = Emmanuelle IV.jpg | alt = | caption = | native_name =  | director = {{plainlist| * Francis Leroi * Iris Letans<ref name="bifi">{{cite web|url=http://cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr/index.php?pk=49771&_ga=1.137155699.2132987703.1420045339|publisher=Bifi.fr|title=Emmanuelle 4|accessdate=January 3, 2016|language=French|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200745/http://cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr/index.php?pk=49771&_ga=1.137155699.2132987703.1420045339|url-status=live}}</ref>}} | producer = [[Alain Siritzky]]<ref name="mfb-review">{{cite journal|journal=[[Monthly Film Bulletin]]|title=Emmanuelle IV|volume=51|issue=600|page=276|year=1984|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|location=London|last=Pym|first=John}}</ref> | writer =  | screenplay = {{plainlist| * Francis Leroi * Iris Letans<ref name="bifi" />}} | story = | based_on =  | starring = {{plainlist| * [[Sylvia Kristel]] * Mia Nygren}} | narrator =  | music = [[Michel Magne]]<ref name="bifi" /> | cinematography = Jean-Francis Gondre<ref name="bifi" /> | editing = Hélène Plemiannikov<ref name="bifi" /> | production_companies = {{plainlist| * Alain Siritzky Productions * Sara Films<ref name="bifi" />}} | distributor = [[The Cannon Group, Inc.|Cannon Films]] | released = {{Film date|df=y|1984|02|15|France}} | runtime = 92 minutes<ref name="mfb-review" /> | country = France<ref name="mfb-review" /> | language = English | budget = | gross = 1.227 million admissions (France)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boxofficestory.com/box-office-sylvia-kristel-c22691621&usg=ALkJrhhXiMC3O6j0LB8gq1rKHeAU9gbmIA |title=Sylvia Kristel French box office information |language=French |website=www.BoxOfficeStory.com |publisher=Box Office Story |access-date=10 April 2022 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> }} '''''Emmanuelle 4''''' is 1984 English-language French film directed by Francis Leroi and Iris Letans.<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|authorlink=Vincent Canby|author=Canby, Vincent|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/11/arts/film-emmanuelle-4.html|date=January 11, 1985|title=FILM: 'EMMANUELLE 4'|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=May 6, 2018|archive-date=September 3, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240903140436/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/11/arts/film-emmanuelle-4.html|url-status=live}}</ref> It is a sequel to 1977's ''[[Goodbye Emmanuelle]]'', and the fourth installment in the [[Emmanuelle|film series of the same name]].<ref name=NYT/> It is also the first film in the series to be filmed in English instead of French.

The film is also the last film credit for 1962 [[Academy Award]] and [[Golden Globe]] nominee [[Michel Magne]], as the film-score composer committed suicide in a hotel room ten months after its release. It was followed by a sequel, ''[[Emmanuelle 5]]'', released in 1987.

== Plot == Sylvia ([[Sylvia Kristel]]) is involved in a [[Suffering|tormented]] love affair with Marc ([[Patrick Bauchau]]). She has tried to end their love, and escape, but always ends up back with him. After an encounter at a [[Los Angeles]] party, she decides she's had enough – she will go to [[Brazil]] and get extensive [[plastic surgery]]. This way he will never recognize her again, much less find her, and it will make for a great article which she promises to hand in to a [[California]] newspaper.

Sylvia goes through with it, and becomes a new woman named Emmanuelle (Mia Nygren); she is now a twenty-year-old [[virgin]]. She plans to take on all of Brazil in a series of sexual [[wikt:escapade|escapade]]s that will [[purge]] her past.

== Cast == * [[Sylvia Kristel]] as Sylvia / [[Emmanuelle]] * Mia Nygren (credited as Mia Rickfors) as [[Emmanuelle]] * [[Patrick Bauchau]] as Marc * Deborah Power as Donna * Sophie Berger as Maria * Marilyn Jess (credited as Dominique Troyes) as Nadine * [[Christian Marquand]] as Dr. Santano * [[Fabrice Luchini]] as Oswaldo * [[Brinke Stevens]] as Dream Girl

==Release== ''Emmanuelle 4'' was released in France on 15 February 1984.<ref name="bifi" /> On its first week in Paris, the film sold 122,009 tickets.<ref name="bifi" /> At the end of its theatrical run in Paris, it had sold a total of 455,882.<ref name="bifi" />

==Reception== In a contemporary review, John Pym of the ''[[Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' stated that "a reach-me-down mish-mash, padded with flashbacks and what appear to be hardcore sequences, and scissored by many hands." The review also commented on the 3D in the film, as "barely noticeable".<ref name="mfb-review" />

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0085486|Emmanuelle 4}}

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