Black Emanuelle 2. Teil (1976)

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Black Emanuelle 2. Teil: Directed by Joe D’Amato. With Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Ely Galleani, Ivan Rassimov. Emmanuelle is sent to Bangkok on a journalism assignment. While there, she embarks on her own exploration of the secrets of sensual pleasure. While learning much, she also reveals several secrets of her own.

“The first thing that struck me about EMANUELLE IN BANGKOK was Nico Fidencou0026#39;s music score, a whistling, happy, bumbling little ditty that would be right at home on a YouTube video compilation of Touretteu0026#39;s Guy clips. Or maybe a toothpaste commercial, its stuck in my head now and fortunately for my sanity, its not bad. Iu0026#39;d whistle it for you if I could, and canu0026#39;t help but wonder if thatu0026#39;s Alessandro Alessandroni doing his trademark thing there. Heu0026#39;s the guy whistling on the old spaghetti western soundtracks, proof once again that while often derivative the Italians managed to create some new forms. The movies may often be cheap u0026amp; boring, but they almost always have great musical scores.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI would paint this one into the same category. It looks pretty much like Joe Du0026#39;amato took a sprawling vacation with some of his favorite stock players (Laura Gemser, her husband Gabrielle Tinti), a couple of Italian genre cinema leading males he maybe owed a favor to (Ivan Rassimov u0026amp; my hero Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) and a few sexy Euro body babes with no problems with nudity, group groping and the occasional half naked lesbian make-out with Ms. Gemser (Ely Galleani, Debra Berger, Gaby Bourgois). He brought along a camera, maybe a mistress to hold the scripts while somebody made sure there was enough light, and went about their touristy ways while filming a scene or two here u0026amp; there as they traveled about.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTwo scenes sort of spoil the fun, first another barbaric episode of Italian filmmakers using animal violence to fill some screen time, then an inexplicable sequence where Ms. Gemser is sexually assaulted by a mob of greaseballs who make a point to humiliate her while getting their jollies off. Inexplicable because afterward she seems quite at ease with herself and chats pleasantly with her attackers as if they had just met at a diner. Then again its all just a silly phallocentric fantasy really, about guys with unlimited means traveling exotic lands in the company of attractive women in their 20s whom they have random sex with, often playing erotic group games for grown ups u0026amp; swapping partners, though the version I saw was strictly a softcore engagement. The most arousing display being a scene where the girls all get up, strip down to their panties and dance like a harem for an Arabian prince.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOr something like that, to tell the truth I was hardly paying attention to the story and frankly couldnu0026#39;t care less. Like a spaghetti western you watch stuff like this for the individual moments rather than the cumulative effect, and most of it passed quite pleasantly with the occasional raised eyebrow. Like the scene were Emanuelle entertains a crowd in a private club by dripping hot candle wax all over her magnificent, nude body. For all we know and given the way Joe Du0026#39;amato worked, the whole film might have been just an excuse to put that up on the screen. It may not pass as entertainment for some, but for those two minutes this movie was the only thing I was thinking about.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e4/10”

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