Françoise Brion

Four years after Emmanuelle spawned a slew of sequels, Nelly Kaplan made her own adaptation of the erotic material, in which sexual precocity and intellectual curiosity go hand in hand. As ferociously feminist as the rest of the director’s oeuvre, this seductive tale stirs the mind and the senses.

In Jacques Doillon’s abrasive melodrama, an encounter between two couples takes tragic proportions as the quartet of lovers play with burning jealousy and possessive desire. The vampiristic and self-destructive impulses of love are explored with piercing honesty and through impassioned performances.