While on assignment in Nairobi, a photojournalist questions her racial and sexual identity when she engages in affairs with her wealthy hosts.
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Black Emanuelle, the original Italian Emmanuelle rip-off which launched a whole series onto its own. I'm mostly a fan of the Joe D'Amato/Laura Gemser cycle of Black Emanuelle movies, but this is where it started, with Bitto Albertini's 1975 release of Black Emanuelle.
It's okay. It introduced Laura Gemser as Emanuelle, which is something I can't thank Albertini enough for. Here she's actually called Mae Jordan ("Emanuelle to my friends"), I'm glad they dropped that in the later entries where she's just Emanuelle.
Nothing too exciting happens here, mostly a bunch of relationship drama because Emanuelle starts having sex with everybody. It's still not the fully fleshed out Emanuelle we'd see in Joe D'Amato's movies, here she still somewhat vulnerable to jealously and feelings. I like her better in D'Amato's movies, more independent, more bad ass.
There's also some themes being explored related to race and sex/gender, but I'm not quite sure if it's approached in the most pro gressive way possible. I love how they left that out in the later "sequels" and just have Emanuelle travelling around the world and having sex with everybody without giving it too much thought.
Amazing soundtrack though, Nico Fidenco's music's been on repeat here for the past few weeks. Quite an underrated composer I feel, for almost all of the Black Emanuelle movies he wrote at least one theme, like an actual song, and they're all catchy as hell. So yeah, that's great. This movie is okay.
Language(s):Italian, English
Subtitles:German
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