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Nymphomaniac. Part 1

Nymphomaniac. Volume I / Nymphomaniac (1)

2013

Lars von Trier

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf ...

6.7

23,516

Drama "Nymphomaniac" is the wild and poetic story of a woman’s erotic journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg). On a cold winter’s evening the old, charming bachelor Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård) finds Joe beaten up in an alleyway. He brings her home to his flat where he tends to her wounds while asking her about her life. He listens intently as Joe over the ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Debruge Variety	"The film provides a good-humored yet serious-minded look at sexual self-liberation, thick with references to art, music, religion and literature."
		Xan Brooks The Guardian	"Hang on to your seat back, your Bible, or the hand of a friend. Lars von Trier's 'Nymphomaniac' bludgeons the body and tenderises the soul. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"This smorgasbord of talk and sex constitutes a very full meal."
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"For those who don't equate sexual appetite with the intricacies of fly fishing, 'Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1' is more tiresome than titillating. (...) rating: ★★ (out of four)"
		Dave Calhoun Time Out	"Chaotic and not especially pretty, it has more of the punkish, radical spirit of 'The Idiots' or 'Dogville' than the gloss or contained drama of 'Antichrist'. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"You're unlikely to turn away."
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"It's a mesmerizing mind game. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"If it weren't for the explicit sexual encounters, this could be an Ibsen or a Strindberg play, unclothed and unmoored from the late 19th or early 20th century. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"
		Tim Robey Telegraph	"You could watch these films for four hours, then spend 14 arguing about them - about whether sex, for von Trier, is an eternal human mystery, or a cosmic joke at our expense. (... Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		Mark Adams Screendaily	"Yes it is provocative, funny, smart, wry and challenging (though never sexy) but it is also a remarkable project brimming with bold and often thoughtful performances."

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