Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol

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Trintignant plays a mystery man of unknown motives amid a proto-Lynchian immersion into kinky perversion, possible physical duality, and wildly manipulated chronology. Your book feels like a powerful act of redress, and I just wondered if you had any thoughts on that. Kristel’s reputation and legacy are still dangerously close to being consigned to oblivion: so many of her films remain un-seeable, un-streamable. To everyone’s credit, including fellow notable actors Rita Tushingham ( Smashing Time) and David Rappaport ( Time Bandits), it’s never hard to settle into Mysteriesclassical, old-world mise-en-scène.

She actually turned down a couple of great films due to her not wanting to work with Klaus Kinski, due to his treatment of women. It’s a celebration of an extremely smart and talented artist and a period in art and popular culture that was unlike any other. In June 2021 it was announced that actress Sylvia Hoeks will play Sylvia Kristel in a biopic about the life and career of Kristel.Known globally for her embodiment of the title role of Just Jaeckin’s phenomenally successful Emmanuelle(1973), that sexually liberated character became something of a millstone around the neck of the insightful, feminist actress. Included in the set’s sturdy red and white beautifully illustrated box alongside the case housing the discs themselves is a 40-page illustrated square-bound booklet featuring excerpts of Jeremy Richey’s writings on each of the four titles, as well as select images carried over from the coffee table book. It’s a bummer that works like Une Femme Fidele, La Marge and Alice have yet to get their due, but they will. With its inclusion in the Cult Epics Kristelset, the film gets its long-overdue domestic Blu-ray debut- and a handsome one, at that. The writing was translated into English as Undressing Emmanuelle: A Memoir, by Fourth Estate, 2 July 2007, in which she described a turbulent personal life that was blighted by addictions to drugs and alcohol, and her quest for a father figure, which resulted in some destructive relationships with older men.

The book is presented in full colour and filled with numerous photographs and promotional materials, such as lobby cards and posters.

I highly recommend the recently released Sylvia Kristel 1970’s Collection from Cult Epics as it allows viewers not only the opportunity to see two of her finest Dutch films ( Mysteries and Pastorale 1943) but also her brief turn in Playing With Fire for another one of her great directors, Alain Robbe-Grillet.

In her 2006 autobiography, Nue, she stated that she was sexually abused by an elderly hotel guest when she was nine years old, an experience she otherwise refused to discuss. Nevertheless, Verstraten has plenty to say about not only Pastorale 1943, but the entire Dutch film history. Even her less prolific singing career gets its due, as her single “Hey, A Letter Came Today” is included in the context of Frans Weisz’s Naked Over the Fence(Netherlands, 1973), one of her early supporting roles.As long as one doesn’t expect Kristel front and center, nor a film that resembles Emmanuellein any way beyond the general opulent lives of its characters, Juliais a fully satisfactory experience. Heavy cuts were made to the film including the complete removal of the opium den rape and the infamous 'cigarette' sequence in the club. When the words do come, I pick them so thoroughly of their live associations that only the death in the word remains. The shimmering ghost of Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel forever hovers over the international sexploitation sub-genre. After a convent school education, Kristel became a photographic model, with a lack of inhibition that landed her role in Emmanuelle – soon followed by Emmanuelle 2 (1975), in which the scene has shifted to Hong Kong, though this is hardly noticeable, because most of the action is in soft-focus close-ups.