Noémie Merlant is Emmanuelle: the sensual trailer for Audrey Diwan's film

A first sulphurous glimpse: Audrey Diwan draws a map of female desires in this trailer full of innuendos.

Fifty years later Sylvia Kristelshe takes on the role of the sultry one Emmanuelle. Noémie Merlant explores desire on a trip to Asia in this new adaptation of the book byEmmanuelle Arsan (1959). The actress was awarded a César for Best Supporting Actress (for The Innocent) in 2023 thus takes over from the Dutch actress who died in 2012, in front of the camera ofAudrey Diwanwho co-wrote the film with Rebecca Zlotowski (Other People’s Children).

An erotic drama, it is constructed as the projection of the fantasies of its author, in search of sexual emancipation, and looks in the face the desires of a woman already deciphered by this first trailer:

“Emmanuelle is in search of a lost pleasure. She flies alone to Hong Kong, for a business trip. In this sensual world city, she multiplies experiences and meets Kei, a man who never ceases to elude her.”

In the issue of First from December 2023, Audrey Diwan confided: “Female pleasure is a little-known territory that I wanted to explore.”A geographical dimension that we find on several scales in this trailer, which already seems to probe the body of its main actress in its smallest corners, while taking a step back (and the pretext) of an almost initiatory journey in a distant country.

Next to Noémie Merlantwe also find a rather impressive international cast: Will Sharpe (The White Lotus), Jamie Campbell Bower (Sweeney Todd, Twilight IV), Anthony Wong II, Chacha Huang (Zorro), Bianca Lau, Adam Tin-Nam Pakand especially Naomi Watts who we haven’t seen on the big screen since her appearance in Goodnight Mommy (in 2022).