Emmanuelle, a svelte, naive young woman, is en route to Bangkok where she'll join her new husband. He works for the French Embassy and has a lovely home, several dedicated servants, and an expensive car at his disposal. Once Emmanuelle arrives, her husband and a few friends introduce her to a realm of sexual ecstasy she'd never imagined.
It's a relief, during a time of cynicism in which sex is supposed to sell anything, to find a skin flick that's a lot better than it probably had to be.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
Film is a series of glossy images and appears more a come-on for the civil service than for femme lib.
– ,
Variety,
28 Mar 2007
rotten:
Very glossy, very French voyage into sexual discovery that mingles cliche and elegant posturing with an attempt to broaden the horizons of the sex film.