The Truth About Emanuel is a 2013 American thriller drama film written, directed, and produced by Francesca Gregorini.

[1] The film stars Jessica Biel, Kaya Scodelario, Alfred Molina, Jimmi Simpson, Aneurin Barnard and Frances O'Connor.

This becomes harder when her best friend Arthur agrees to babysit so Linda can attend Emanuel's birthday dinner.

When Claude agrees to landscape for Linda, Emanuel becomes angry at his sudden presence in several areas of her life.

Emanuel hears her name being called and swims away until she awakens on a gurney with her father and a police officer present.

Rooney Mara was set to play the title character, Emanuel, before Kaya Scodelario replaced her as the lead.

[4] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote that the film "uses overwrought scenes of magical realism to couch psychosis as poetry and masochism as growing pains.

Dependent on the cliché of women operating solely on instinct and without regard for logic (or, apparently, gainful employment), the film never finds its dramatic footing.

"The elaborate tap dance of protection and distraction plays like farce when it should be gripping and tense, and it's unintentionally amusing when it should be creepy or sad.

"[6] Writer, director and producer Francesca Gregorini earned a nomination at the Sundance Film Festival for 2013 Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic.

In January 2020, writer/director Francesca Gregorini filed a copyright infringement and injunction-seeking lawsuit against Apple TV+ and the creators and producers of Servant, a psychological horror series that debuted on the new streaming network in November 2019.

Servant's creator Tony Basgallop and co-producer M. Night Shyamalan responded that neither had seen her film and that any similarity was a coincidence.