Blue Belle (also known as Annie, Teenage Emanuelle, The End of Innocence and La fine dell'innocenza) is a 1976 drama film directed by Massimo Dallamano and starring Annie Belle, Felicity Devonshire, and Maria Rohm.
Premise
Annie, the mistress of a middle-aged financier, accompanies him on a trip to
Hong Kong. When his business interests collapse Annie ends up destitute. She is befriended by a group of socialites and begins her rite of passage in their world.
Cast
Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "
Blue Belle slides comfortably into the apparently still chic hand-me-downs of big sisters
Emmanuelle,
Black Emanuelle and
Vanessa, while conducting her own search for truth, sexual fulfilment and box-office receipts in the ever-dependable Orient. Massimo Dallamano (alias Jack Dalmas when he photographed
Sergio Leone's
Fistful of Dollars and
For a Few Dollars More) directs in the current soft-core format: a combination of over-upholstered emptiness and frosty sincerity that effectively reduces characters, locations and story to the level of scenery. Actress Annie Belle re-enacts some of her 'real-life adventures' well enough, but Ines Pellegrini's mysterious features (she played Zumurrud in Pasolini's
Arabian Nights) lend this voyage its only real spirituality."
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