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Nea: A Young Emmanuelle

Néa

Nelly Kaplan

France, Germany

1976, 103min

Fiction, Drama, Erotic

VO. French

With

Ann Zacharias, Sami Frey, Françoise Brion

Teenager Sibylle is in rebellion against her rich, worldly parents. A reader of erotic novels, she decides to write one herself. Her meeting with a successful author will allow her to emancipate herself and to play with male diktats.

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Teenager Sibylle, defiant towards her rich parents, loves to read erotic novels. By keeping only the title of Emmanuelle Arsan’s novel, rebellious filmmaker Nelly Kaplan brings a personal feminist tone to the post-Emmanuelle cinema of the Giscard era. While the action takes place primarily in Coppet, Switzerland (whose castle has remained associated with Madame de Staël), the film caused a scandal thanks to a daring scene in Calvin College.

Direction

Nelly Kaplan

Screenplay

Nelly Kaplan, Jean Chapot, D'après le livre d'Emmanuelle Arsan

Image

Andréas Winding

Editing

Hélène Plemiannikov

Sound

William Robert Sivel

Music

Michel Magne