Wednesday, 20 December 2017

Nymph()maniac Parts I & II

(Lars von Trier/2013/Denmark, Sweden, France & Germany)

Danish avant garde prankster Lars von Trier finishes off his Depression Trilogy with a four hour comedy about a sex addict. This hilarious plot includes scenes so ludicrous that at times I couldn’t actually laugh out loud because my brain did a double take thinking maybe the joke was on the audience. If you have a free afternoon and like having someone trying to shock you with subpar Freudian shtick then fill your boots. If however, like me, you’ve run out of patience with a Danish nincompoop who openly positions himself next to geniuses such as Bergman and Kurosawa and considers himself “provocative” then give it a miss. Each part gets a point for the respective performances of Stacy Martin and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

(2/5)

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