Review of Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013) by The3Academysins — 06 Mar 2019

Nymphomaniac is not great. Lars Von Trier spoon-feeds a lot of visual and themes to the viewer that used to be so subtle in his previous movies. The script sucks. I don't know how else to put it. Lengthy dialogues about fly fishing, lines that people would never say even in surrealism, and overly repetitious scenes turn Nymphomaniac into a slow slog.

In spite of some really good acting performances, it's hard to care about the characters as they are written. The movie looks strangely unfinished at parts, and that doesn't look stylistic, but lazy. However, some sequences are gripping, and Von Trier does at parts offer up a good view on human sexuality.

If you're brave, I think you can find something here.