Another World
Entertainment
Denmark R2 DVD
Web: http://www.anotherworldent.com/
Various editions of Sister Emanuelle are available
around the world; sadly, most of them are soft core editions and are hence
missing a lot of the action. The original masters of the unedited edition have
been lost and AWE have worked hard to recreate the hardcore edition from
original soft core masters and videos of the edited footage. The DVD release
includes both the soft core (87 minutes) and the hardcore (92 minutes)
editions. It is in English and includes various subtitle options include
Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish. It is a region 2 PAL release and very
impressive. It is surprising what a difference five minutes can do to both the
mood and feel of a film and the hard core edition is certainly the recommended
option.
In this tale, Laura Gemser, who many
believe to be the ultimate Emmanuelle actress, is placed into the role of a
nun- accordingly we have every possible
male fantasy – nuns, lesbianism, a stunning female lead lots of sex and did I
say lesbianism ! Emanuelle has given up her lustful past and become a nun in a
very strict tradition. She has been sent to Venice to meet with a very wealthy
patron and take his daughter back to the nunnery. It seems his daughter has
been caught having a very hot lesbian affair with her stepmother, indeed later
in the film we see this affair in flashback – it is amazing the uses a banana
can be put to! The first scenes in the film as the Nuns travel by boat to the
train with the daughter and stepmother all over each other are literally
dripping with eroticism and this balance of explicit sexuality and eroticism is
what makes this film so successful.
Emanuelle and an elderly nun start the
journey to take Monika back to the convent, but as they travel the long
distance on the train, Emanuelle’s is taken by Monika’s rampant sexuality and
her desires are stimulated and she falls to sleep experiencing a range of wild
dreams which become the basis for the film.
Along the way we are treated to all sorts
of lesbian sex, flashbacks of Monika and her stepmother’s banana exploration,
an escaped murderer who seduces both Monika and Emanuelle and lots more. We
only realize that the story is a series of dreams when she awakens after the
train journey, takes Monika to the Convent and then leaves, realizing that the
life of the Nun is not for her. Yah for Emanuelle !
This is certainly one of the better
Emanuelle films packed with eroticism as well as explicit sex, it also has a
very cool Seventies soundtrack. Many believe this is one of the best Emanuelle
films in the franchise and it is hard not to agree, it has a superb European
exploitation feel which makes every moment a joy !
This review will appear in Volume 2:1
(2009) of the digital and print edition of Synergy Magazine.
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