Comments on: Berlin Review: Lars von Trier’s Director’s Cut Of ‘Nymphomaniac Part 1’

By: nicki

nicki — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

this is the only review I've read that says Christian Slater's performance is "great"…:0 his chapter seems the weakest.

By: Yo

Yo — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

Kiang – you write some great reviews.

By: Corvo

Corvo — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

Excellent review!

By: woops poops

woops poops — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

It's actually #6 on your most anticipated films

By: Pierre

Pierre — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

Cannot wait. Only 13 more sleeps (in my whoring bed) till release!

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

''There's a also a very graphic scene in which students are being taught how to perform an abortion.'' Mmm… I guess that scene got deleted for the shorter version that I've seen here in Belgium. Thank God.

Very curious to see how you guys will review Part II. I thought it was the better part.

By: lee

lee — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

should we be upset we're only ever likely to see the shorter version?

By: Travis Hopson

Travis Hopson — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

Totally different from the version I saw at Sundance, but it looks like we came to the same conclusion. Nice review.

By: Sven

Sven — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

Good review but 2 of the photos don't belong to part 1, they are from part 2. Or did an intern just randomly googled 'nymphomaniac' and decided that any picture will do?

By: bert

bert — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

Ridiculous review. Is Jessica 19 years old? So edgy! Yawn.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

Disgusting

By: MickeyTheKnife

MickeyTheKnife — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

Why all the "we" in your thorough review?
"I" is a very powerful word for a writer.
I agree that LVT has made one of the greatest "feminist" films of recent years with 'Melancholia'. I haven't seen Nymphomaniac yet (only all the spoilers), and I'm looking forward to it.

By: The Song Remains The Same

The Song Remains The Same — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

Please read my review of Nymphomaniac 2 on this site.

As I stated there– I would've gotten more emotion from looking at a blank wall than I did from Stacy Martin, to be known forever to cult audiences as Joe 1 in Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac Vol 1 and 2 ( In 2 only to continue Joe's telling of her life).
I suppose you must see 1 to understand 2 . I think Martin was cast only for her 18 going on 13 looks by the director, himself an emotionally void person.
The perfect example of Martin's performance is in the Mrs H 'chapter' . If I were Uma Thurman I would have slapped Joe 1 in the face until she showed/said well, anything.
As Joe 1, Martin had no figure, wore no makeup, her hair was drab, and she dressed as a plain as possible . But STILL dozens of happily married, fat, thin, young, old, handsome, homely men were knocking down her door to be with her, an emotionally frigid girl/ woman.
WHY?
Not to mention although I guess it's minor – Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stacy Martin look nothing alike. But, perhaps this is all Lars Von Trier's point.
The REAL why and how of Joe finally comes to life when Joe 2 tells her OWN STORY to a stranger, albeit a seemingly sympathetic one that rescued her. Perhaps in the story this is the WAY SHE SAW HERSELF, thus Martin's purposely lifeless performance. Did Von Trier cast Martin that way deliberately? Frankly, it's the only way I can justify Joe 1. It's story telling, a recounting of all the wrongs after all. (And it also helps that Charlotte Gainsbourg is a supremely good, expressive actress.)
In movie 2 the parallels made between Joe and Seligman have a lyrical 'can't take you eyes away' feel . It becomes the catharthis/ breakthrough in the movie, it's purpose. The realization in Joe 2's mind that all the sex was her way of surviving but not fulfilling or healthy in any way. Fascinating stuff. And a very good movie or at least the Von Trier premise was thanks to Gainsbourg.
(SPOILER)
But, alas, that good old 'Von Trier' ending . I saw, believed in, so wanted a glimmer of hope for Joe.
But this director/artist persists in torturing himself. So did he to his very own personal Nymphomaniac . Sooner or later, his audiences, some of them women will never ever (want to) come back.
(Shia Le beouf ?- get over yourself- your accent sucked and you know it)

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

I love it when 145 minutes flew by.

By: William

William — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

I couldn't digest this turgid and bloated review. I had to skip most of it and go on the merit of the director. Parsimonious ?

By: Donella

Donella — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

The still shot of naked LeBeouf between that woman's legs turned me off long before the review had a chance to.

By: galina

galina — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

I also thought it was a great well-written informative review, although it exasperates me that this is yet another film about female sexual experience written and directed by a man, told to by a man, and the female protagonist even gets a man's name…c'mon feminist or not, where are all the women telling it like it is??

By: no no no

no no no — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

Lars Von Trier is attentionwh*ring controversy seeking disgrace. Nothing honest, bold or daring here, just cheap publicity stunt.

By: David Sutherland

David Sutherland — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

Feminist reviewer not sure she needed to see abortion but loves the thrilling, titillating, fornicating film… yes, we need to grow the eff up.

By: abdo karim

abdo karim — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

voer

By: Reed

Reed — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

Loved this review; absolutely one of the best I've read for the film. I'll certainly be looking forward to it when it's released here!

By: DomizianoA

DomizianoA — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

Thank you, a splendid review, for a great uncompromising author and personal director of greater vision! And a great cast all deserving!

By: Girl Power

Girl Power — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

"grow the f***up" if we're frightened by the f word of feminism? Most who dont like the word do so because of another f word, the specter of which you which effectively summoned in your *fascist* dismissal of differing points of view. I would suggest you to grow the f*** up and deal with issues in all of their real implication.

By: RB

RB — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:09:36 +0000

The most thought provoking part, to me, was when she and Jerome finally became a couple. After numerous sex scenes with him, an exhausted Jerome tells Joe he just can't keep up with her. She needs sex at least 10 times a day. With his consent and aid, she prowls for men while he cares for the child. Sex was not something she could control in the least; it was a pure addiction. And then she'd come home, looking like a bad day at the office. They'd look at each other and it was shameful, disgusting, heart wrenching at the same time