Laure

Digitmovies ventures again into the territory of erotism with this release of a musical rarity: The complete and full stereo OST by Franco Micalizzi for the movie "Laure" directed and starred in 1975 by Emmanuelle Arsan, (real name Marayat Bibidh) born in Bangkok and with a French naturalization. In the sixties when she did indeed have the nickname of Emmanuelle Arsan, she wrote the novel "Emmanuelle" which tells the story of a young woman in search of sexual emancipation through a series of transgressive and libertine experiences. This book sold more than twenty million copies throughout the world and from it an internationally successful movie was adapted and also several unofficial sequels which just used the character's name, but otherwise did have nothing in common anymore with the original story and the charaters created by Arsan. "Laure" was co-directed by Emmanuelle Arsan and Ovidio G.Assonitis, even if, for mysterious reasons, the direction is credited to Anonymous. "Laure" is one of the movies of the erotic-exotic genre and stars, besides Arsan herself, Al Cliver, Orso Maria Guerrini, Annie Belle. At the time of the film's release a 45 rpm single was issued in Italy, Portugal, France and Japan which featured the main theme song sung by Emmanuelle Arsan and the track "Emmelle" (Tr.3 here) on side B, but there is some incredible news that we can reveal only now thanks to the informations of M°Micalizzi: The male voice which performs the duet with Miss Arsan is really the one of Franco Micalizzi himself which was not credited on the original singles! In 1976 RCA issued an LP album (SP 8057) in the promotional SP series which contained ten selected instrumental tracks. For this special edition CD which has been authorized by M°Micalizzi himself, we could use the complete stereo master tapes kept in the RCA vaults until now: Besides the theme song and the instrumental tracks already featured on the old vinyl album, we have added seven more themes which brings our CD to a total duration of 61:13. Sonorities produced by the performance of a symphonic orchestra, choir and modern arrangements make this soundtrack something so precious for all the fans of Franco Micalizzi and of the erotic/exotic genre. Franco Micalizzi has written a slow romantic theme in a Pop vein called "Laure" (Tr.1) which often crops up in the OST in Tr. 4, Tr.7,Tr.12,Tr.14,Tr.16, Tr.18. This motif is alternated with the exotic and percussive "Mara's theme" which has some kind of Police movie flavour (Tr.2, Tr.8,Tr.13,Tr.15,Tr.17). Another main erotic theme is "Emmelle", a sensual pop style theme with a duet of female voice and bass male voice (Tr.3) which then gets reprised in a symphonic epic version with orchestra and choir.