In 1974, after a year of wrangling with the censors, Emmanuelle was a blockbuster sensation on release in France and a box office triumph around the world, from Japan to the U.S. The image that adorned cinemas across the world was of an unknown 20 year-old posing naked, innocent, and vulnerable on a wicker chair. Overnight Sylvia Kristel was propelled into international superstardom and became an icon of sexual liberation. Sylvia Kristel was born of a dysfunctional family and suffered an impossibly strict religious education. But having won the Miss TV Europe competition in 1973 she was driven by her own ambition to be an actress on the world stage, and auditioned for the part of the innocent seductress in Emmanuelle. Through the phenomenal success of the three Emmanuelle films she starred in she became the darling of Hollywood, as she seduced and was seduced by the rich and the beautiful of the golden age of cinema. She soon found herself typecast as Emmanuelle and often played roles that capitalized upon that image, most notably starring in an adaptation of Lady Chatterly's Lover and a nudity-filled biopic of Mata Hari. The price that she paid for her meteoric rise was an equally rapid descent into an excess of alcohol and drugs as her tempestuous family life threatened to fall apart. Naked, candid, and heartbreakingly honest, this memoir reveals the real personality and struggles behind the famous sexual icon.
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'Far from being seedy, this is an elegantly written book. The prose is simple, evocative and highly readable. I found myself wishing that our home-grown celebrities would write books full of ideas and feelings, not glossy magazine therapy-speak. A few of her highly stylised sentences tell far more about the whys and wherefores of exposure and fame than all the trash clogging the bestseller lists of late.' Belle de Jour, The Times 'This is a poignant, semi-intentionally hilarious autobiography. Her story is gripping.' Sunday Times 'A remarkable memoir. A series of impressionistic snapshots, delivered in austere, melancholic prose, it is quite unlike other show-biz memoirs and its candour is raw. Sylvia is a cult icon, she loosened our inhibitions. But the price was high.' Bridget Hourican The Gloss Magazine
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Sylvia Kristel was born 1952 in the Netherlands. At the age of 17 she started modeling and won the Miss TV Europe in 1973. Her cinema career was launched by the phenomenal worldwide success of 'Emmanuelle' in 1974. After starring in a number of 'bonkbuster' films and winning her fight against drugs, alcohol and cancer she quit acting and is now an artist in Amsterdam.
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interesting lady,
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This review is from: Undressing Emmanuelle: A Life Stripped Bare (Paperback)
Ms Kristel writes with a style that is all her own. Not a surpriseas her physical beautiy was also all her own, not the classic M. Monroe beauty people looked for in movies. Bright, at times funny and aserbic.
Book tells more about what happened, and how it happened, then why....only real weakness is in the paperback were there is a page listing the illustrations, but no illistrations (and no pictures) in the paperback edition.
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VERY DEPRESSING LIFE,
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I FOUND THIS BOOK BY SYLVIA KRISTEL TO BE VERY HONEST, OPEN AND BETTER THAN I THOUGHT. HER CHILDHOOD CERTAINLY IS WEIRD AND ABNORMAL. HER PARENTS BOTH ALCOHOLICS WERE CERTAINLY NOT VERY GOOD PARENTS. NEITHER WAS SYLVIA WHEN SHE WAS DRINIKING AND DRUGGING. SYLVIA DOESN'T GIVE AWAY ANY REAL DETAILED SEX STORIES IN HER BOOK BUT SHE IS HONEST AND ADMITS TO SEVERAL AFFAIRS. SHE DOES NOT GO INTO MUCH DETAIL ABOUT HER MOVIES SEX SCENES AND SHE SEEMS TO ONLY BE MODERATELY INTERESTED IN SEX IN REAL LIFE. SHE DOES A GREAT JOB DESCRIBING HER COKE AND BOOZE ADDICION WITHOUT BEING TOO GRAPHIC. I ADMIT SHE WAS VERY SEXY AND ALLURING IN HER MOVIES AND FOUND THEM TO BE WORTH WHILE. SHE DID LEARN TO ACT EVENTUALLY. NOW SYLVIA IS RECOVERING FROM HER ADDICTIONS BUT IT HAS NOT BEEN AN EASY ROAD AS SHE HAS HAD CANCER BUT HAS SURVIVED. HER STORY IS WELL WORTH READING AND IS NOTHING LIKE HER CHARACTER EMANUELLE LIVED.
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Sylvia and Emmanuelle,
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Sylvia writes quite well. A rememberance of those sexy travel movies. I still haven't seen her on any of my flights. Have you?
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