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Week of July 11, 2014
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Nymphomaniac: Volume I
In this day and age, if you’re not a nymphomaniac than
marketing and advertising firms have failed to do their jobs.
Fortunately for them, the female in this drama is a
full-blown sex-fiend.
Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård) comes across a severely beaten
woman, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), in the alley one night.
He takes her back to his apartment for recuperation. While
she rests, Joe regales Seligman with the sorted saga that lead to her attack.
From an early age Joe was a sexual being. It was not until
her deflowering by Jerôme (Shia LaBeouf), however, that she discovered the
virtues of copulation.
Lover after lover, Joe details for Seligman her
hypersexuality and the events that formed her professed impiety.
More analytical than exploitive, writer/director Lars von
Trier doesn’t shy away from the dalliances. Instead he dissects them with poise
and humour.
Incidentally, Nymphomaniacs should make sure they have a
sturdy bed. Green Light
Nymphomaniac: Volume II
The best part of being a nymphomaniac is you don’t need to
own many clothes.
Surprisingly, the sex-fiend in this drama has a respectable
wardrobe.
Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) continues her sexual confession
for Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), the impartial passerby who found her beaten
in an alleyway.
From her failures as a wife and mother that lead her to
weekly sessions with a sadomasochist (Jamie Bell), to her relationship with her
father (Christian Slater) which now influences her relationship with her
protégée (Mia Goth), Joe bares her soul to the stranger.
Drawing ever closer to the reason she was left half-alive in
the gutter.
The final chapter of Lars von Trier’s magnum opus, Volume II
fills in a lot of the holes from the first volume but also tends to venture
into some unlikely scenarios involving a criminal (Willem Dafoe).
Ironically, this film’s target audience will be having sex
throughout it. Yellow Light
***Current Affairs***
Eyes Wide Shut
The downside to a sexually active married couple getting
divorced is they have to divvy up their sex toys.
Something the struggling twosome in this drama might want to
start considering.
Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife Alice (Nicole
Kidman) make a desirable duo. But where she keeps other men at bay, the good
doctor doesn’t do the same with his admirers.
In fact, he goes so far as to get himself involved in an
exclusive masquerade where powerful people are rumoured to participant in
sexual rituals.
Unceremoniously unmasked, Dr. Harford is expelled from the
secret gathering and warned to stay away - but Bill cannot abide.
Meanwhile, Alice’s dreams involving multiple partners
increase.
Stanley Kubrick’s cunning dissertation on infidelity, this,
his final film, has an air of mystery about it that lends magically to its more
erotic elements.
Furthermore, orgies are only fun when women show up.
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