Canuck actress Claudia Udy plays a model who's dating a rock musician, but then falls madly in love with an older man. And it's not nearly as demented and weird as some of the 'Emmanuelle', um, re-imaginings like the notorious Joe D'Amato-Laura Gemser 'Black Emanuelle' series (which featured cannibals, snuff films, etc.). It's not as erotic as some of the earlier 'Emmanuelle' knock-offs like the German film 'Vanessa'. It's not as well-made as the early Sylvia Kristel 'Emmanuelle' films. Although they were never exactly good, I kind of like the 1970's 'Emmanuelle'-type films, but this, uh, genre, had grown really tired by 1983, and this film really adds nothing new. Obviously, it is another knock-off (a French-Canadian one this time) of the 1974 European film 'Emmanuelle'. This movie is supposedly based on an erotic autobiography by one 'Joy Laury'. And as a little extra for the American market, none other than porn legend Linda Lovelace would star in the title role. What this meant in practice was that the actual author of the Emmanuelle books, Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane (!), would write the script and direct, while his wife Marayat, under whose pseudonym 'Emmanuelle Arsan' the Emmanuelle-books had been published, and who had consequently become an icon of eroticism, would appear extensively in a supporting role. Instead of pulling off another unlicensed 'Emanoellle' ripoff, they dug into their pockets and put some serious money on the table and hired 'Emmanuelle' herself to do the writing, acting and directing. It represents the effort of a Hollywood studio (20.th Century Fox) to cut in on the highly profitable Emmanuelle franchise (which was so profitable that it has been credited with saving the entire French cinema industry). If you're interested not just in movies, but also in the stories behind them, then this is a most worthwhile film.

In a way, this is one of the great iceberg crashes of the movie industry, en par with Waterworld in terms of failed hopes.

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