WEDNESDAY 19 NOV – H 21:00 – ROOM 5

NYMPHOMANIAC: Volume 1
DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, BELGIUM, SWEDEN – 2013 – color -110’

Direction: Lars von Trier
Screenplay: Lars von Trier
Cinematography: Manuel Alberto Claro
Editing: Morten Højbjerg, Molly Malene Stensgaard
Production design: Simone Grau Roney
Music: Rammstein
Costumes: Manon Rasmussen
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg (Joe), Stellan Skarsgård (Seligman), Stacy Martin (Joe girl), Shia LaBeouf (Jerôme), Christian Slater (Joe’s father),Jamie Bell (K), Uma Thurman (Mr.sH), Willem Dafoe (L), Mia Goth (P), Sophie Kennedy Clark (B), Connie Nielsen (Joe’s mother), Michaël Pas (Jerôme adult), Jean-Marc Barr (borrower), Udo Kier (waiter), Nicolas Bro (F), Hugo Speer (sig. H), Jens Albinus (S), Felicity Gilbert (Liz), Tabea Tarbiat (Valeria), Tania Carlin (Renée), Jesper Christensen (Jerôme’s uncle)
Production: Zentropa
Italian distribution: Asmara Films

Synopsis
In the alley in front of his tenement building, ageing bachelor Seligman finds a young woman covered in blood. He takes her to his apartment where Joe tells him about her life, her experiences with men and her insatiable appetite for sex. She first learns about the physiology of the female body from reading her doctor father’s medical books. Although not yet an adult, she and a girlfriend embark on a round of sexual escapades, seducing men in flats, train compartments, bars and offices. Jerôme, with whom she has a child, is the one constant in her life. But her happiness is fragile.

critical note
“Von Trier, rather, in his attempt to explore women’s sexual theory and practice — and consequently, the more opaque and petty ones of men — relies on diverse, bold, and complex narrative elements that range from psychoanalytic readings to refined metaphors, from numerical to photographic symbolism, from Voltaire-style dialogue/debate to melodramatic shocks. (…). The opening sequence alone, however, is enough to make clear what an unusual level Nymphomaniac possesses: a series of tracking shots that summon the viewer into a dark, deteriorated urban non-place, ridden with indistinct noises, sinister creaks, trickles of melting snow, and then suddenly torn apart by the heavy metal music of Rammstein. (…)”
(Valerio Caprara, Il Mattino, 3 April2014)

main festivals and awards
2014 Berlinale – Out of Competition
2014 Bodil Awards: Best Actress
2014 European Film Awards: nominated as Best Film, Actress, Actor
2015 Danish Film Award: BestDirector, Original Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography, Costume Design, Sound, Visual Effects
2015 Italian Online Movie Awards: Best European Movie