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NYMPHOMANIAC: Volume 2
DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, BELGIUM, SWEDEN – 2013 – b/n & color -122’

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), Shia LaBeouf (Jerôme), Christian Slater (Joe’s father), Stacy Martin (Joe girl), 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
“Charlotte Gainsbourg is extraordinary in her ability to cross over, with words and body, the entire range of torment within a character who shares many points of contact with the protagonist of the underrated Antichrist, evoked here in a key scene. She is — it’s now certain — the muse and the most fitting alter ego of the Danish director, once again elevating her singular physicality to an icon of suffering. And equally praiseworthy is Stellan Skarsgård, who plays a patient Seligman with all the wisdom and cunning of a great actor.”
(Daniela Catelli, comingsoon.it, April 18, 2014)

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: Best Director, Original Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography, Costume Design, Sound, Visual Effects
2015 Italian Online Movie Awards: Best European Movie