“Nymphomaniac”: Not A Turn-On
Lars von Trier’s four-hour, two-part sex epic features an ensemble cast, including Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard, Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman and Christian Slater. The Hollywood Reporter says: ‘At its core the film represents an intellectual male artist’s arduous, wayward, idiocentric, blunt, naughty-boy attempt to address Freud’s famous question, “What does a woman want?†Being delivered as the director’s Christmas present to Danish audiences on Dec. 25 and fanning out across Europe through February, the English-language marathon will be theatrically released by Magnolia in the U.S. in two parts, with Part 1 opening March 21 and Part 2 following on April 18 (both will be available on demand 15 days earlier). As usual with von Trier, art house partisans will check it out, perhaps a bit more than the norm in this case, but the general public will steer clear, despite presumed universal interest in the subject matter.’ Variety adds: ‘The only arousal von Trier intends is of the intellectual variety, making this philosophically rigorous picture…a better fit for cinephiles than the raincoat crowd.’
