Nymphomaniac
Self-diagnosed nymphomaniac Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) spins a tale of her erotic past to a stranger, the elderly bachelor Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård) who found her badly beaten and took her into his home. Over tea at Seligman's home, Joe recounts the story of her excessively sexually promiscuous life.
The film was originally supposed to be only one complete entry; but, because of its four-hour length (5 1/2 hours in the director's uncut version), von Trier made the decision to split the project into two separate films - Volumes 1 and 2.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Stellan Skarsgård
Stacy Martin
Shia LaBeouf
Christian Slater
Uma Thurman
Sophie Kennedy Clark
Connie Neilsen
Jamie Bell
Willem Dafoe
Mia Goth
Michaël Pas
Jens Albinus
Jean-Marc Barr
Udo Kier
Lars von Trier
Producer:
Marie Cecilie Gade and Louise Vesth
Written by:
Lars von Trier
Distributor:
Les Films du Losange (France), Concorde Filmverleih (Germany)
$4.7 million
Box Office:
Volume 1: $10.3 million; Volume 2: $2.2 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score:
75%