The trailer is here! Finally, discover the very first images of Emanuel, the new adaptation of the cult novel. The Audrey Divan movie will be released on September 25, 2024.
what casting
The main role is played by Noemi Merlant. In addition to Naomi Watts, Will Sharpe (White Lotus) plays the lead role. Jamie Campbell Bower (Stranger Things), Chacha Huang (La Casa de Papel) and Anthony Wong (Infernal Affairs) are also credited.
For the record, there was a casting change for the heroine: the first actress was Léa Seydoux.
“Noemi Merlant is a pure artistic choice, an obvious choice like Annamaria Bartholomew in my previous film. (Event, editor’s note.)“Audrey Divan confided in Deadline.
and added: “I love Léa Seydoux, I want to make a movie with her one day. But for me, it was not the character I imagined. From Portrayal of a Girl on Fire to Tara, I never cease to be seduced by the power of Noemi Merlant’s acting.
She has the authority and allure needed for this role. Noème redefines the French woman. His attitude, his smile, that hint of cockiness… I’m also sensitive to the idea of finding an intelligent partner to create this character with by making this choice. This film requires a lot of investment and mutual trust. I know I found the right personAudrey Divan concludes.
What is the summary?
The synopsis is still a secret, but Audrey Diwan, who wrote the screenplay in collaboration with Rebecca Zlotowski, revealed that she started from the original book, Emmanuel Arsani’s sultry novel. So it’s not a direct remake of the Just Jaeckin movie that was released in 1974.
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.
At the beginning of the writing I often thought of Baudelaire’s L’Invitation au voyage
“At the beginning of the writing, I often thought of Baudelaire’s L’Invitation au voyage: “Here everything is in order and there is beauty.” We can read in the columns of Télérama. In a place where, exactly, order and beauty would be like a dictate everywhere. or some idea of pleasure. With my co-author Rebecca Zlotowski, we very loosely adapted the novel, keeping the reader in the pursuit of pleasure by reconstructing it around today’s woman..”
The film was shot in Hong Kong and Paris, in English.
what point of view
For this new “post #MeToo” adaptation, the vision that will be given to this heroine will obviously have to be very different from 50 years ago and Sylvia Christel’s version. How much eroticism will there be? Will carnality be suggested rather than captured? In a Télérama column, director Audrey Divan explained that she wanted to say “Through the senses of Emmanuelin the columns of ” DeadlineHe explains that each scene will be similar to “research“. And added: “Winning the Golden Lion in Venice gave me the freedom to try something completely different and explore. This is where the motivation for my film came from.“
As for Noemi Merlant, here’s what she told us a few months before filming began: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 an interview exactly one year ago.
Noemi Merlant is in the foreground
Noémie Merlant has had a number of great roles: we saw her in Louis Garrel’s L’Innocent, a beautifully comic score (and to hold Cesare), and in 2023, opposite Cate Blanchett, in American Tár. by Todd Field, but also in Les Ameseuses by André Techiné (video interview above), currently broadcast on Canal+ / myCANAL.
Noemi Merlant talks about all of these films in the podcast interview below:
Remember that Noemi Merlant has been in the spotlight since Celine Sciamma’s portrait of a young girl on fire brought her to international attention.
Just Jaeckin’s first film, which became a cult
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.
Who is Audrey Divan?
In 2018, Audrey Divan directed her first feature film, But You’re Crazy. In this drama, Pio Marmai plays a seemingly eccentric father who turns out to be addicted to cocaine. Her life is turned upside down when one of her daughters is taken to the emergency room due to a drug overdose…
Audrey Divan then directed L’Événement, a drama adapted from a novel by Annie Ernot, in which a young woman decides to have an abortion in order to complete her studies and escape the social fate of a proletarian family. The film is presented at the Venice Film Festival and it is a blessing for the filmmaker as he receives the ultimate prize: the Golden Lion. Emmanuel is his third feature film.
Emmanuelle will be released on September 25, 2024.
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