Nymphomaniac
2013
***
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stacy Martin, Stellan Skarsgård, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Mia Goth, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Connie Nielsen, Michaël Pas, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier
A well-read single man gives refuge to a bruised and battered woman named Joe, a self-confessed nymphomaniac who spends the evening and night recounting her sexual history. It's a story filled with pain, pleasure, shame, and loneliness. The only constant in Joe's life is Jerôme, who takes her virginity and reappears several times along the way. Whatever you think of Lars von Trier's work, it rarely leaves you cold. Following Antichrist and Melancholia, this is the final part in his so-called Depression Trilogy. The 4-hour film (released in two parts) is funny and heartbreaking, as well as academic and artificial, but well worth the watch. The constant stream of emotional and physical violence, and (porno)graphic sex scenes do not make it an easy watch, though.
