When I heard that the Emmanuelle series, after a long gap, was getting basically a reboot, with the setting changed to the present day, I was curious about what form it would take. On the one hand, our current period of Intimacy Consultants, and understanding the idea that a sex scene in a film can itself tell a story, could make for actually better depictions of sex and sexuality than Just Jaekin did in the original film. On the other hand, there is a degree of puritanism going on in modern film where even if a film has nudity and sex, it tends to be judgemental about it (and a generation of Gen-Zs who have had Puriteen propaganda shoved at them leading to distressingly more of that generation than I’d like – though anything greater than zero is more than I’d like – going conservative, anti-proshipper and TERF aren’t helping), which could make the film miss the point. The question is – which is it?