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Nymphomaniac: Volume I MOVIE

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PLOT: After finding a woman beaten, bruised and lying in the street, an older gentleman helps her to his home. Finally safe from an unknown assailant, she convinces him to not call for the police. Instead she tells the stranger of her long and complicated sexual history. And this is only volume one.  REVIEW: In the new film from the provocative filmmaker Lars von Trier, an older man and a younger woman discuss her “sinful” life. He and the audience learn how the beautiful - yet recently bruised and battered - Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) at a very young age found that her world revolved around sexual pleasure. As a teenager she and her friend played a game to see who can f*ck the most men on the train – for which they don’t buy their own ticket. The winner of this game gets a bag of candy. For the young Joe (a ferociously open performance from Stacy Martin) it seems to simply be about fueling her insatiable appetite for pleasure. She goes through a series of men – at one point represented by a montage of flaccid penises - and a self-serving Jerôme (Shia LaBeouf) with whom she continues to cross paths with years down the road. Seligman (the terrific Stellan Skarsgård) listens intently to the young woman tell her tales, occasionally interrupting to compare her life to fly-fishing or another strange non-sequitur.  The first part of this sexually explicit feature film – shot as one four hour plus movie but released in two parts – could have been a stage play. Aside from the collection of flashbacks and memories, this is a conversation between two people. With each recollection we find more and more about Joe’s history while she never really seems to truly grow. The way she discusses her personal details is completely detached as if she is tediously reading a very graphic women’s magazine. Seligman takes it all in, all the while attempting to convince her that she is not a sinner or something evil. It is a strangely provocative series of debates that oftentimes makes for awkward transitions. At one point he is making a point about something when she replies making a strange connection to being a nymphomaniac. Yet the uncomfortable nature of her stories is occasionally absorbing. -

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Nymphomaniac: Volume I MOVIE


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Nymphomaniac: Volume I MOVIE