Livia Russo Nude (was 18 years old in this scene) in I mavri Emmanouella (1979)

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After thinking about it a lot, I've decided that they could not have had sex after the scene ended. First, every other instance of sexual activity in the film is shown at least starting at a minimum, leaving no question as to whether sex occurred or was about to occur. In this scene they are nude but there is no sucking on nipples, fondling breasts, etc. which would imply more occurred when it faded to black. In the later scene with Mario, that intercourse occurs is unequivocal and definite. Second, it would make the rape scene at the end of the film much more anticlimactic if Livia were not a virgin when it happened. I mean, it's awful either way, but more tragic if it was her first time, especially since she could have had sex with her boyfriend but apparently passed up the opportunity, not knowing she would be raped shortly. Also, the scene where Emmanouella says that she sees a marriage in the tea leaves "... but there's a problem..." makes sense if the "problem" is that the bride lost her virginity to somebody other than the groom. (Though, this raises the question of just when she thought the marriage was going to take place, given Livia's presumed age based on that of the actress playing her - what's the minimum age of marriage in Cypress?)

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(want to hear a really twisted theory? In the movie, her father Victor is portrayed as a scumbag and a pervert - the girl is walking down the stairs and sees dear old dad doing something I'm.... not sure I should describe to Emmanouella. And after he dies, when she's talking to Emmanouella as she (Livia) showers, she says that she despises her father. Kinda makes you wonder what he did, eh? (Hey, I didn't write the dialogue - if the director didn't want to leave this possibility open, he could've slammed the door on it.)

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This scene is nice, but it does raise a glaring plot issue - namely, what actually happened between the two when the scene ended? At the end of the film (spoiler alert!), after the rape and right before he's shot dead by Emmanuella, the hitman Tommy clearly indicates that he believes he deflowered Livia. But in most American movie, if you see two teens nude, starting to lie down, and then the scene fades to black, the assumption is that the teens had sex. Yet the two give no verbal or other clue that this has taken place. So was she a virgin when she was raped, or wasn't she?