Moreover, the film has a kind of charm that is difficult to manufacture intentionally. It is not cynical. It is not cruel. It is, at its heart, a goofy sex comedy made by people who clearly enjoyed making it. In an age when so much media is focus‑grouped and algorithm‑optimized to within an inch of its life, there is something almost admirable about a film as gloriously, unapologetically weird as Emmanuelle Through Time: Sex, Chocolate & Emmanuelle .
In Western imagination, chocolate has long been a metonym for forbidden pleasure. The conquistadors saw it as an exotic, dark elixir; the court of Versailles consumed it as an aphrodisiac. By the 1970s—Emmanuelle’s cinematic heyday—chocolate had become a sanctioned, yet still slightly transgressive, stand-in for sexuality itself. In the world of Emmanuelle, sex is never rushed or mechanical. It is observed, savored, melted slowly on the tongue. To watch Emmanuelle explore a lover’s body is to watch someone unwrapping a piece of dark chocolate: anticipation, the snap of the shell, the slow dissolution. emmanuelle through time sex chocolate emmanuellerar
Films like Emmanuelle 2 and various TV movies continued the theme, often with different actresses, exploring new locales and scenarios. Moreover, the film has a kind of charm
Emmanuelle Through Time: Sex, Chocolate & Emmanuelle was produced in the United States in 2011 and released on DVD and as a television movie on June 2, 2012. It was distributed by E. Star and Alain Siritzky, the latter a veteran producer of the later official Emmanuelle sequels who apparently saw no contradiction in funding a parody of a franchise he had himself helped to produce. It is, at its heart, a goofy sex