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Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol

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JR: The noteworthy change is rather jaw-dropping, especially when viewed back-to-back (which critics at the time couldn’t do). The shimmering ghost of Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel forever hovers over the international sexploitation sub-genre. Sylvia’s acting, writing, painting and work in general are what interest me, so anyone looking for gossip about her and someone like Ian McShane will come away disappointed and I’m fine with that honestly. This is original first-person commentary, people who knew her sharing their memories about her process, her personality, her overall talent.

However, their five-year affair led to no significant career break for Kristel, but a relationship she describes in her autobiography as "awful– he was witty and charming, but we were too much alike. In 1971, before becoming famous, she took part in an audition for the female lead in the film Last Tango in Paris (1972) but lost out to Maria Schneider.Alongside her most famous role, directed by Just Jaeckin, a little-known fact is that Sylvia Kristel also appeared in over 20 films between 1973 and 1981 featuring exceptional work with some of the greatest directors in film history including Walerian Borowczyk, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Roger Vadim and Claude Chabrol. This film pushed the boundaries of what was then acceptable on screen, with sex scenes, skinny-dipping, masturbation, the " Mile High Club", rape, and a scene in which a dancer lights a cigarette and puffs it with her vagina. Aside from the standard edition of the book, there are versions with a collector’s box and others with dust jackets autographed by Richey.

It turned out the prince of Thailand was a huge fan of films and had his own studio built near the palace, so he let us use that for the rest of the shoot. She survived to work again, directing a short animated film, Topor and Me (2004), which won an award at the Tribeca film festival in 2006. I mean, in one scene we try to play squash and in about 10 seconds the other woman is pushing me against a ladder and kissing my breasts. Although Private Lessons was one of the highest-grossing independent films of 1981 (ranking number 28 in US domestic gross), [10] Kristel reportedly saw none of the profits and continued to appear in movies and last played Emmanuelle in the early 1990s.

A number of unofficial productions in Italy, Japan and the United States cashed in on the Emmanuelle craze, changing the spelling of the title. Sylvia From Emmanuelle to Chabrol is a film-by-film guide to one of the most distinctive and uncompromising careers in modern cinema, and a celebration of a most remarkable woman in a fully illustrated coffee-table book written by author Jeremy Richey.

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