Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

Lars von Trier

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3.50

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

Synopsis

The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.

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83
IndieWire
At its best, the film doesn't strain for meaning but instead treats all of its intellectualizing as a lark that can be taken seriously but doesn't need to be.
80
Time Out London
We’re never far from Von Trier, and both Skarsgård and Gainsbourg appear to offer different versions of the author himself.
80
The Guardian
It is so laden with highly charged set pieces, so dappled with haunting ideas and bold flights of fancy that it finally achieves a kind of slow-burn transcendence.
80
The Hollywood Reporter
Volume two gets down in ways the first half doesn't, although anything resembling real sensuality remains MIA.
80
Variety
It’s one thing to declare sex a fact of life and insist that audiences confront their unease at seeing it depicted (or, equally constructive, their intense excitation at its mere mention), but quite another to fashion a fictional woman’s life around nothing but sex. As courageously depicted by Gainsbourg, Jo is ultimately a tragic character.
80
Empire
A rich movie, seductive when abandoning people for falling snow or bleak nature and funny, painful and unflinching when it gets physical.
80
Total Film
Thought-provoking rather than arousing, both films explore the director’s ideas about love, sexuality and loneliness. The organ he seeks to stimulate most is your brain.
80
The Telegraph
The point is that you could watch these films for four hours, then spend 14 arguing about them – about whether sex, for vor Trier, is an eternal human mystery, or a cosmic joke at our expense.