Black Emanuelle 2 Explained

Black Emanuelle 2
Director:Bitto Albertini
(as Albert Thomas)
Starring:Shulamith Lasri
Angelo Infanti
Music:Don Powell
Cinematography:Guglielmo Mancori
Runtime:91 minutes
Country:Italy
Language:Italian

Black Emanuelle 2 (Italian: Emanuelle nera nº 2, also known as The New Black Emanuelle and Black Emanuelle No 2), is a 1976 Italian psychological drama-sexploitation film directed by Bitto Albertini. It is an unofficial sequel of Black Emanuelle.[1] [2]

Background

Nominally a sequel to Albertini's successful 1975 sexploitation film Black Emanuelle, Black Emanuelle 2 differs greatly in plot. It stars Israeli actress Shulamith Lasri (in her sole film)[3] as Emanuelle Richmond Morgan, a supermodel in a state of profound amnesia confined to a mental institution in New York City.[2] [4] Lasri credited as "Emanuelle Nera".[1] [2] The lead actor, as in the first film, is Angelo Infanti; he plays an entirely different character, however.[2] The film was shot was variously shot in Rome, New York City and Venice.[2]

Plot

Emanuelle Richmond Morgan (Shulamith Lasri) is an African American supermodel married to basketball star Fred Morgan (Percy Hogan). She had visited Beirut in July 1976 and fell in the centre of the Lebanese Civil War. She has been going through a state of amnesia since then, kept at a mental institution in Manhattan. Dr. Paul Gardner (Angelo Infanti) who is in charge of the clinic takes a special interest in Richmond's case and begins to personally investigate her past, starting with the photographer John Farmer (Franco Cremonini) who was with her in Beirut.

Cast

Reception

The film was generally badly received by critics. According to Manlio Gomarasca, it has an "unattractive story", in which "it is not clear if the irony that winds throughout the film is voluntary or not".[2] Film critic Paolo Mereghetti wrote that the film is "extremely poor", and her lead actress has "generous shapes but a rare inexpressiveness".[5] In its DVD Talk review, it is described as "flat, tedious and barely thrilling" and as "a relatively daft and boring entry into the cycle".[6] In his DVD Verdict review, Daryl Loomis wrote that the film is "mind-numbingly dull and looks like a grouping of unconnected scenes".[7]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Marco Giusti. Dizionario dei film italiani stracult. 1999. Sperling & Kupfer, 1999. 8820029197. 256.
  2. Manlio Gomarasca. "Nero su bianco - Emanuelle nera n° 2" in AA.VV. Al tropico del sesso, Nocturno Dossier (35). November 2005. p. 32.
  3. News: Marino. Patrizio. 2 November 2020. EMANUELLE NERA: TUTTI I FILM DELLA SERIE EROTICA ISPIRATA AD EMMANUELLE. Movieplayer.it. 29 December 2020.
  4. http://tvmag.lefigaro.fr/programme-tv/fiche/cine+-club/telefilm/49551144/justine-bonne-a-tout-faire-2.html Justine bonne à tout faire 2
  5. Book: Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. 8860736269. 561.
  6. News: Kurt Dahlke. Black Emanuelle's Box, Vol. 2 - Review. 13 January 2015. DVD Talk. November 13, 2007.
  7. News: Daryl Loomis. Black Emanuelle's Box, Volume 2. 13 January 2015. DVD Verdict. December 9, 2007.