Nymphomaniac Volumes I & II Directors Cut [DVD]

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In Nymph()maniac Volume I and Volume II: Extended Director’s Cut, Von Trier puts together all of his fears, hopes, and ideas about creation together. By concealing them within the shell of something he knew would get accused of pornography, he has successfully hidden all his secrets in plain sight. Fascinated by the role of myth and storytelling in modern societies, Von Trier frames his epic tale in an Arabian Nights style, with the nymphomaniac Joe telling her tale to Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård) who acts as both a surrogate for the audience and critics, who undoubtedly tried and continue to try to dissect and analyze the film.

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a b Macnab, Geoffrey (26 April 2012). "Lars vonTrier to make Nymphomaniac in two feature-length parts". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 20 June 2012 . Retrieved 28 December 2012. (subscription required) Realising she has no place in "normal" society, Joe turns to organised crime and becomes a debt collector, utilising her extensive knowledge of men, sex, and sadomasochism. She reminisces about a memorable housecall to a man ( Jean-Marc Barr) who she initially finds sexually unreadable. She ties him to a chair, strips him and attempts to provoke him with every sexual scenario she can think of. Upon further interrogation, Joe gleans that he is a repressed pedophile. She takes pity on him and fellates him. Joe explains to Seligman how she feels deep compassion for people born with a forbidden sexuality. She strongly identifies with the man's loneliness and status as a sexual outcast, and lauds him for going through life without acting on his aberrant desires. Reynolds, Simon (16 May 2013). "Lars vonTrier debuts 'Nymphomaniac' photo". Digital Spy . Retrieved 19 April 2019. Lars Von Trier’s Nymph()maniac did not follow the exact same path, although similarly it was first released as two separate chapters that were followed almost half a year later by the Extended Director’s Cut. Von Trier’s first theatrical versions were received warmly by critics, who once again were titillated by the world’s most extraordinary provocateur. Von Trier has never been one to shy away from controversy and when he first announced in 2012 that he would be making two films about the life of a self-professed nymphomaniac called Joe (played by Stacy Martin and Charlotte Gainsbourg) from ages 0 to 50. The world payed rapt attention. He assembled one of his greatest ensembles to date and created enough buzz around the films to the point where critics and journalists were doing reenactments of the now iconic posters used by the marketing department to sell the film.

Nymphomaniac glamorizes the syndrome as much as Melancholia did depression or Antichrist did grief. Yet in the original cut, it looked like Joe paid little personal price outside of the constant harangues and hate she received from the women whose men she stole (including that great scene with Uma Thurman). Så voldsom er Triers 'directors cut': Tre mænd fik ildebefindende til gallapremiere". Bt.dk. 11 September 2014 . Retrieved 24 November 2014. a b c d e f g h i j k Roxborough, Scott (17 October 2012). "Lars vonTrier Veterans Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier Complete 'Nymphomaniac' Cast". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 21 November 2012 . Retrieved 28 December 2012.Inspired by a fly fishing lure on the wall behind her and Seligman's love of Izaak Walton's book The Compleat Angler, Joe opens her story by talking about her precocious sexual fascination during her early childhood. Her father ( Christian Slater) is a tree-loving doctor whom she adores while her mother ( Connie Nielsen) is, as Joe describes her, a "cold bitch". In adolescence, Joe ( Stacy Martin) loses her virginity to an arbitrary young man named Jerôme ( Shia LaBeouf). This first encounter, which ends with Jerôme casually leaving her to fix his moped, leaves her disappointed, while Seligman observes that the combination of the number of times Jerôme penetrated her, three times vaginally and five times anally, resembles the Fibonacci sequence. Nymphomaniac is the third and final installment in vonTrier's unofficially titled Depression Trilogy, following Antichrist and Melancholia. [10] Plot [ edit ] Narrative acts Nymphomaniac Vol. I & II' arrives on Blu-ray in a eco-friendly Elite keepcase that houses Vol. I on the inside left and Vol. II on the inside right. Both discs are 50GB dual-layer Blu-rays. Both Vol. I and Vol. II are front-loaded with trailers for 'White Bird in a Blizzard', 'The Two Faces of January', Filth, plus an ad for AXS TV. The main menu consists of a montage of stills of the actors (primarily promotional photos), with either an occasional flash of red (for Vol. I) or pink (for Vol. II). Menu selections run down the left side of the screen. Extended Director's Cut Teaser Trailer (HD, 1 min.) – The teaser trailer for the extended version of both 'Nymphomaniac' volumes. A JOYOUS WORK OF FLAT-OUT GENIUS. It’s a blast, full of life and energy and ideas and humor and sexy naked bodies."

NYMPHOMANIAC Volume II – Director's Cut Selected for Venice Film Festival". MICHELLE RIIS MICHAELSEN. Archived from the original on 19 October 2016 . Retrieved 24 July 2014. LaBeouf said in August 2012, "The movie is what you think it is. It is Lars vonTrier, making a movie about what he's making. For instance, there's a disclaimer at the top of the script that basically says we're doing it for real. Everything that is illegal, we'll shoot in blurred images. Other than that, everything is happening. ... [V]on Trier's dangerous. He scares me. And I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified." [20] Filming [ edit ] Von Trier does a masterful job of presenting Joe's life as dominated by and, in large parts, electrified by sex." Nymphomaniac review by Martin Solibakke". Mancunion. Archived from the original on 10 September 2016 . Retrieved 28 April 2014.Nymphomaniac Vol. 1′ Review: Bigger, Longer and Uncut - Variety". Variety. 9 February 2014 . Retrieved 24 November 2014. The material with Jamie Bell is more difficult to take. We get a sequence of accidental genital mutilation that’s very tough to look at and his character is so cold and distant that we never understand his impetus — outside of money — for doing what he does. Lars vonTrier at gala screening of complete Nymph()maniac Director's Cut - Ekstra Bladet, September 10 2014". Ekstrabladet.dk. 10 September 2014 . Retrieved 24 November 2014.

An unofficial entry in the Mad Dane’s “Depression Trilogy”, which also includes Antichrist and Melancholia (both of which also star Gainsbourg), the film examines the life of a woman through her indifference to sex and sexual behavior. What in the first theatrical version often seemed like parody in the director’s cut is clearly a highly orchestrated melodrama, in which the constant appearance of ejaculating penises and exposed vaginas seems to be not merely a morbid addition, but something akin to the musical flourishes that give Baroque music its distinct voice. We also get more explicit looks at the character’s early travails. The train tryst before offers up some hardcore results now, while the work of Stacy Martin continues to amaze. While Charlotte Gainsbourg gets all the accolade, her younger costar is the one whose truly brave. Even with a “porn double” and a prosthetic vagina, she puts herself out there in every scene, coming across as the title concept with true hunter/gatherer urgency. Similarly, her effect on the men she meets suggests an internal heat that entraps both the person and their propensities. While age definitely dims some of this aggression, the movie makes it clear that it still remains there, like a slumbering giant.

Nymphomaniac was released both together (in a two-disc set) and separately via DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on 8 July 2014. [66] Director's Cut was made available in the US on both home media formats on 25 November 2014.