Ultra-iconic and a true phenomenon: this photo will make you forget Emmanuel in his rattan chair

One of the most anticipated movies of 2024 has finished shooting! The 2024 version of Emmanuelle, directed by Audrey Dewan, was filmed in Hong Kong and Paris, in English. This project, taken from Emmanuel Arsani’s sulphurous novel, presents a new vision of this work.

While we knew that Noemi Merlant would be playing the lead role, we knew very little about the casting and story until now.

The curtain lifts slightly thanks Deadline who was able to speak with the director and on this occasion shares the very first official photo of the film.

In addition to Naomi Watts, whose name was recently revealed in the cast, we now know that Will Sharp (White Lotus) will play the male lead. Jamie Campbell Bower (Stranger Things), Chacha Huang (La Casa de Papel) and Anthony Wong (Infernal Affairs) will also be in the credits.

The synopsis is still a mystery, though Audrey Couch who wrote the screenplay in collaboration with Rebecca Zlotowski, revealed that he started from the original book. This is not a direct remake of the Just Jaeckin movie.

We know that it will be a modern movie, which will take place in a luxurious hotel where Emmanuel’s character works. he’s there”will explore his quest for pleasure“. It is indicated that, unlike the original film, this will not be a quest”discovery“pleasure but”research“Some pleasure.

Noemie Merlant has many successes and great roles: we saw her in Louis Garrel’s L’Innocent, a wonderful comic score (and Cesar to boot), and in 2023, starring Cate Blanchett, in The American. Todd Field’s film Tár, but also André Techiné’s Les Ames Noirs (video interview above), currently broadcast on Canal+ / myCANAL.

More recently, he was part of the Hard Year Trio with Pio Marmai and Jonathan Cohen.

Noemi Merlant talks about all of these films in the podcast interview below:

“I feel there is risk taking, but at the same time, I like to take risks. That’s pretty much what I prefer. (…) from this woman’s point of view, connecting with her desire, sexuality, fantasies… that interests me. There are risks, but very exciting and liberatingNoemi Merlant told us about Emmanuel in our interview last April.

Banned for under-16s at the time of its release, the original 1974 film followed Emmanuelle, a young woman who lives freely with her husband Jean. During a trip that takes her to Bangkok to join her husband, Emmanuel meets two men on a plane and enjoys a brief fling.

During his stay, he meets two young girls, Marie-Ange and Bi, with whom he has an affair. Jean, in turn, decides to throw Emanuela into the arms of a promiscuous sixty-year-old…

Emmanuelle’s 1974 version became a true phenomenon in cinemas at the time, attracting more than 8.8 million viewers. The release date of this new version of the Emmanuelle Audrey sofa is not yet known.