With a soon-to-be-infamous new one, provocatively but accurately named Nymphomaniac in two separate volumes , von Trier ostensibly meets the pressing subject of sex head-on.
Key word: ostensibly. Yes, there will be explicit sex sprinkled throughout here. But from another perspective, von Trier reverses the old equation of using a shabby narrative to justify the sex scenes: the nakedly carnal snippets are served here as erotic β and sometimes anti-erotic β joy buzzers amid deeper existential, psychological, and sociocultural questions.
Leave it to von Trier, the great Danish trickster and cinematic rethinker. The memories stretch from a serial-casual-sex-on-a-train challenge with her teenage friend to a startling scene confronting the wife Uma Thurman, rocking in her role of a middle-aged man whom she has an affair with.
Nymphomaniac , as seen in Vol. Not surprisingly, Nymphomaniac finds the intellectually restless director addressing sex and the art of cinema in beguiling, dualistic ways β anything but head-on. See you next week. Please note this login is to submit events or press releases. Use this page here to login for your Independent subscription. Username or Email Address.
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