Nymphomaniac

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Movie
German title Nymphomaniac
Original title Nymphomaniac
Nymph () maniac.jpg
Country of production Denmark , Germany , France , Belgium , Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length Theatrical version:
I: 117 minutes
II: 124 minutes
Director’s Cut:
I: 148 minutes
II: 178 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
FSK 18 (Director's Cut Part II)
Rod
Director Lars from Trier
script Lars from Trier
production Louise Vesth
camera Manuel Alberto Claro
cut Morten Højbjerg
Molly Malene Stensgaard
occupation

Nymphomaniac (stylized as Nymph () maniac ) is a European film drama in two parts by Lars von Trier from 2013 with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stacy Martin in the leading role of "Joe".

action

Forty-year-old nymphomaniac Joe is rescued by an aging bachelor with the Jewish first name Seligman after a brawl . Lying in a guest bed in his apartment, she tells him her sexual life story in eight chapters.

  • Chapter 1, The Compleat Angler : At the age of 15, Joe asks the slightly older Jerôme to deflower her. He gets it over with carelessly and with minimal effort in order to be able to continue tinkering with his moped. The disappointed Joe's resolution never to sleep with a man again does not last long - a little later, Joe and her best friend B compete in seducing strange men to have sex in the toilet while driving the train, and Joe wins.
  • Chapter 2, Jerôme : Joe has grown into a young woman who has a large sexual appetite in the near absence of emotion. When she started working as a secretary for a company, the junior boss turned out to be Jerôme. He is interested in her, but she is not interested in him, considering her disappointing “first time”. When she finally develops feelings for him, it is already too late because he has meanwhile started a liaison with his secretary and the senior manager of the company is dismissing Joe. Nevertheless, Joe and Jerôme keep friendly contact and continue to see each other.
  • Chapter 3, Mrs. H : Just as Joe is about to break up with one of her numerous lovers, his wife stands at the door with her children and makes a dramatic scene for her husband, Joe and one of her lovers.
  • Chapter 4, Delirium : Your father, whom Joe loved very much, is in the hospital and delirious . Joe takes this so much with her visits that she tries to cover it up by having multiple sex with a nurse, but she doesn't really succeed. During another visit, the father fell out of bed and had to be restrained by several carers . A short time later, her father is dying.
  • Chapter 5, The Little Organ School : After her father dies, Joe resumes her unsteady love life with changing lovers. After a long time while walking in the park, she happened to meet Jerôme again, who had fallen out with his wife. Joe and Jerôme have sex with each other for the second time, which is more passionate this time than the first time. Here Joe discovers to her horror that she can no longer feel anything during sex. (This ends part I.)
  • Chapter 6, The Eastern and the Western Church (The Silent Duck) : Joe and Jerôme are now a couple and moved in together. Joe has found pleasure in sex again, but she is still dissatisfied with her sexuality. After forgetting the pill, Jerôme becomes pregnant and has a child with him, Marcel. Jerôme can no longer withstand Joe's insatiable desire for sex and, frustrated, offers her to get sex from others if necessary. Joe accepts the offer, but Jerôme becomes more and more jealous, also for fear of losing her to someone else. Three years later, Joe had not had an orgasm in a long time. Since Jerôme is mostly on a business trip, she has sex with two black men, but it doesn't go as she imagined. Afterwards it arrives at the address of the sadist K, who runs his “studio” almost in the style of a doctor's office. Joe and other women wait in a kind of waiting room until K invites them in and hits them a certain number of times with a riding crop in a strict, controlled ritual . Joe doesn't always have someone to take care of Marcel during this time. When Jerôme finds Marcel unsupervised on the balcony in the snow, he threatens Joe to leave her with Marcel if she doesn't give up her S / M obsession. Joe decides against it and he follows up on his threat. However, even Jerôme cannot take care of the child sufficiently, which is why it is placed in a foster family. Some time later, Joe's visits to K are over.
  • Chapter 7, The Mirror : A year has passed since Jerôme separated. Joe, now living alone again, is pregnant by one of the men she had meanwhile. She wants to have an abortion, but is not understood by doctors and psychologists, which is why she undertakes a drastic self-intervention as a last resort for the abortion, which she succeeds in severe pain. Joe's health began to show negative effects in her gender area a few years later. Her boss also notices Joe's sexual excesses and demands her to go to a therapy group. There she should learn to openly admit to herself and to others that she is a sex addict. She breaks off therapy by admitting that she is a nymphomaniac, but wants to continue to be so.
  • Chapter 8, The Gun : Joe applies to a debt collection company to be a debt collector. She shows talent and can also use her S / M experience profitably. Joe gets a young woman, P, assigned by her boss, who is to train her as an assistant and successor. She befriends the young woman and after a while lets her move in and live with her. In between she has pain in her abdomen again and again, after-effects of her own intervention. Your sexuality comes almost completely to a standstill. P reveals that she loves her. A few days later, she seduces Joe. They fall in love. Joe takes P after their insistence on a mission, where she wants to collect the debt immediately with a pistol, but Joe forbids her. On another mission, the two women and their team are sent to a house that belongs to Jerôme. Joe evades the mission under a pretext, which her now new colleague P carries out on her own. P also performs other assignments with Jerôme on his own, until Joe discovers that the two are actually having sex with each other. She decides to flee the area first, but changes her mind and lurks Jerôme and P with P's pistol in a backyard - Seligman's backyard. But because Joe didn't load the pistol, she can't shoot them. Jerôme beats up Joe. Then she has to watch Jerôme having sex with P on a garbage can. Finally, to add to the humiliation, P urinates on them. They leave her in the alley.

Seligman, a shy scholar who has never had sex except with himself and who considers himself asexual , listened to Joe's life story to the end. She has since become very tired and he lets her sleep. Before that, she gives him to understand that she wants to fight her nymphomania after all, and sees Seligman as the first new friend in life afterwards. Later he goes into the room and opens the covers under which Joe is lying half-naked. He starts to masturbate on her. Joe wakes up and protests. When Seligman searches for arguments for his actions, she reaches for her pistol. The picture fades out and you can hear her charging through, shooting him and then leaving the apartment.

background

  • The film production companies Zentropa Entertainments and Heimatfilm were involved in the realization of the film .
  • Nymphomaniac was filmed in several locations in Belgium, Denmark and North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • Film release in the Danish and Spanish cinema was on 25 December 2013. In Germany celebrated Nymphomaniac on 9 February 2014, on the 64th Berlinale in the uncut version Premiere .
  • Because of its length, the film was released in most countries in a shorter and two-part theatrical version (Part I: Chapters 1–5; Part II: Chapters 6–8). The German theatrical release of Part I was on February 20, 2014, Part II was released on April 3 of the same year. In the USA , the film opened in selected cinemas on March 21, 2014 and April 4, 2014. For the home theater, the 325-minute Director's Cut was released , which was approved by the FSK as “no youth release”.
  • The title song Führe mich (Nymphomania) comes from the album Liebe ist für alle da by the Rammstein group and was specially rewritten and rearranged for the film.
  • For some of the authentic sex scenes, the German porn actor Conny Dachs was involved in the shooting of the film as a body double . For example, you can see the bare rear view of Conny Dachs, who in the second part in the role of a bound debtor is whipped with a power cable by actress Charlotte Gainsbourg.
  • One of the participants in the self-help group for women addicted to sex, who is sitting together in a circle of chairs in a scene of the second part, is the German actress Christine Urspruch .
  • In the course of their intimate conversation between Joe and Seligman, the scholar tells of the erotically tinged literary writings Canterbury Tales from the 14th century, Decamerons by the writer Giovanni Boccaccio and the oriental tales Thousand and One Nights .
  • In the scene in which actress Charlotte Gainsbourg sets a silver Mercedes-Benz on fire with a Molotov cocktail , the song Burning Down The House by the Talking Heads from 1983 is heard . During the credits at the end of the film, the song Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix is ​​played to be heard in a version sung by leading actress Charlotte Gainsbourg.

reception

The first part of the film Nymphomaniac was largely positively rated by Rotten Tomatoes and achieved a "rating" of 75 percent, based on 179 reviews. In contrast, the second part fell slightly at 60%.

“Von Trier […] is unfortunately too entangled in his rather private creative nonsense for his experimental set-up to turn into really great cinema. It may be that the man is depressed; it may be that he markets himself as a passion for suffering; he may have very stupid or very clever thoughts. No matter. Contrary to many biographical misunderstandings, the viewer may not care at all. […] In the cinema, however, 'Nymphomaniac' is noisy, entertaining and shockingly tension-free. In this story, which supposedly tells of lust and the pursuit of happiness, the dramaturgy of the organ grapple prevails. "

- Wolfgang Höbel : Spiegel Online

“Anyone who dares to venture into this dreary soul show will indeed discover a sick fate, but will be rewarded with a film art based on ingenuity, imagery and ambiguity. Beyond the unadorned view of the orcus, the Danish grandmaster of the psycho-cinema masters it like no other to show the mountains of our longings and hopes. In the face of a glowing firmament, the audience hears Joe's dream at the beginning and at the end [...] - a moment full of poetic intensity. "

- Björn Hayer : Neue Zürcher Zeitung

“While all the explicit scenes that determined the reputation of the film in advance are thoroughly intellectualized and sterile, NYMPHOMANIAC turns out to be“ slippery ”in a completely different sense. You can't get hold of this film in terms of interpretation. Where the seriousness ends and the farce begins, where it is about female sexuality and where male projection is concerned, at least the first part, regardless of whether in the shorter or the director's cut version, does not provide any real information. "

- Barbara Schweizerhof : epd film

Awards

In 2014 Charlotte Gainsbourg won the Danish Bodil for best actress for both parts . In the same year, several nominations for the European Film Awards followed (best film, best actress - Charlotte Gainsbourg, best actor - Stellan Skarsgård, audience award). The Director's Cut version won awards in eight categories at the 2015 Danish Robert Film Awards, including Best Danish Film , Best Director and Best Original Screenplay .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b release certificate for Nymphomaniac: Volume I . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2014 (PDF; test number: 142 878 K).
  2. ↑ a b Certificate of Release for Nymphomaniac: Volume II . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, February 2014 (PDF; test number: 143 436 K).
  3. ↑ a b Certificate of Release for Nymphomaniac: Volume I - Director's Cut . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, September 2014 (PDF; test number: 142 878-a V).
  4. ↑ a b c Certificate of Release for Nymphomaniac: Volume II - Director's Cut . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, September 2014 (PDF; test number: 143 436-a V).
  5. ^ Company credits. Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013). Internet Movie Database, accessed January 7, 2014 .
  6. ^ IMDb Filming Locations Nymphomaniac. Retrieved January 7, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Competition, out of competition, Nymphomaniac Volume I (Long Version) In: Berlinale Catalog 2014, p. 37
  8. ↑ Nymphomaniac Volume I (long version) (Berlinale program)
  9. ↑ Nymphomaniac comes to Berlin in the Director's Cut - schnittberichte.com
  10. ^ Nymphomaniac: Volume I. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Nymphomaniac: Volume II. Internet Movie Database, accessed on June 10, 2015 (English).
  12. ↑ NYMPHOMANIAC VOL. 1 + 2 (DIRECTOR'S CUT) . Stockholm Film Festival , archived from the original on November 18, 2014 ; accessed on March 28, 2016 (English).
  13. ↑ Porn actor Conny Dachs: The last of his kind by Sebastian Dalkowski on www.faz.net, page 3 ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ), May 6, 2013
  14. ^ Nymphomaniac: Volume I (2014). Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved March 3, 2015 .
  15. ^ Nymphomaniac: Volume II (2014). Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 3, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: Lars von Trier's "Nymphomaniac 1". Sex and sayings. In: Spiegel Online , accessed on February 26, 2014
  17. ↑ Björn Hayer: A celebration of breaking taboos . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , accessed on April 8, 2014
  18. ^ Barbara Schweizerhof: Nymphomaniac . In: epd Film , accessed April 10, 2015
  19. ↑ Robert-Vindere 2015 dfi.dk, accessed on August 9, 2015.