Emmanuelle
DECAL | Release Date (Streaming): June 6, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
8
Negative:
1
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20
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeJan 19, 2025
Diwan relocates the action to Hong Kong and remakes Emmanuelle as a glossy but dispiriting treatise on the emptiness of the corporate world, punctuated by lots of panting, lip-chewing abandon. Read full review
40
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsJan 17, 2025
The film is not wanting for alluring, dramatic situations, but the filmmakers seem at best haplessly blind and at worst blithely dismissive of their potential. Read full review
67
The Film StageAlistair RyderJan 17, 2025
I was surprised to find Emmanuelle lingered in the memory a lot more than any story about the brief rush of desire should. Read full review
40
The Irish TimesTara BradyJan 16, 2025
Laurent Tangy’s slick cinematography adds to the sense that we’re watching a luxe commercial. But for what? It’s impossible to figure out who this empty film is for or why it exists in the first place. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawJan 15, 2025
Even with Noémie Merlant as her lead and no less a film-maker than Rebecca Zlotowski working with Diwan on the screenplay, this Emmanuelle 2.0 comes across as inert and self-conscious, confusing torpor with languor, and endowing the non-sex scenes and also the sex scenes with blankness rather than tension or anticipation or pleasure. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinNov 5, 2024
The result is an empty film about emptiness, and therefore doubly depressing. Read full review
40
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganSep 24, 2024
Mostly Emmanuelle feels like a package and looks like packaged luxury, the kind that comes with money and not very much taste. Read full review
58
IndieWireNatalia WinkelmanSep 24, 2024
In aiming for a piece of atmospheric sensuality, she instead lands in an erotic no man’s land, where the dramatic but obvious filmmaking — like an orbital shot when Emmanuelle finally reaches orgasm — isn’t surprising or evocative enough to make up for the silly monologues and empty characterizations. Read full review
40
VarietyGuy LodgeSep 24, 2024
Saying something freshly substantive about female desire while honoring the film’s defining spirit of vapid, diaphanous horniness is a tricky, potentially unworkable brief; Audrey Diwan‘s inert, frequently frigid new film opts to do neither. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinSep 24, 2024
If it’s lucky, Emmanuelle might find an afterlife as a kind of Showgirls for its generation, a great-bad movie that’s undeniably craptacular yet strangely endearing, a shameful pleasure in every sense. Read full review
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