Chartering a woman named Joe’s sex life from birth to age 50, Lars von Trier‘s Nymphomaniac will be sure to shock and ostracize critics and the public at large. Trier has a penchant for tiptoeing the line between film and snuff and it’s hard to imagine that this one won’t be just as perverse and challenging as his most offensive and challenging work. The first official image featured a topless Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) sandwiched between two equally bare black bulls and this poster seems to be all but suggesting the same kind of gang-bangin’ situation. Oh Lars, how you be so tasteful?
There’s a fine line between art and pornography and I have a feeling the MPAA is gonna come down hard on Trier and slap this with the dreaded NC-17, that is if it gets rated at all. Trier’s second to last film, Antichrist, didn’t bother with a rating and so I guessed I shouldn’t have been so shocked when I saw full penetration in slo-mo, that same fully penetrating penis getting lobbed off or a woman circumcising herself with a dirty pair of scissors. Yeahhhhh… Antichrist wasn’t quite my favorite movie of all time.
Nymphomaniac is directed by Lars von Trier and stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stacy Martin, Shia Labeouf, Jamie Bell, Connie Nielsen, Mia Goth, Jens Albinus, Severin von Hoensbroech, Peter Gilberg Cotton, Nicolas Bro, Tabea Tarbiat, Janine Romanowski, Jesper Christensen, Tania Carlin, Felicity Gilbert and Shanti Roney. There is no release date nor is does it have a festival lined up for its premiere yet.
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By: Matt Oakes
Started blogging about film in college when the university paper wouldn’t have him. Dislikes your consensus film Twitter favorites. Devotee of horror movies that make him die a little inside. Catches films at festivals when he can. Proud SFCS and OFCS member and Tomatometer-approved critic. Editor-in-chief of Silver Screen Riot.
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