Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

quantreal2 Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac is a triumph of storytelling. Everything is wonderful from the acting to the cinematography. It's easy to see why stupid people would underestimate a powerful story about addiction and pain; it takes some courage and open-mindedness to examine Joe's life. Her story is not an easy one to get hold of, but it's more than worth understanding what makes her tick, and Von Trier spins a beautiful web. Everyone involved does an amazing job. The acting is top notch and very powerful. Somebody wrote that the Cinematography is terrible. Wow! You'd really have to have horrible eye sight through eyes of Stupid to believe this is the case as the Cinematography is Wonderful!

Mark Beckmann Simply tedious, full of extraordinarily disgusting scenes. Such an ultra-long so-called movie about nonsense, without a particular target or message. Might be useful for perverts. Total waste of time; happy that I paid no money to watch it.

tbiancolino Well, that is my first review here, and sorry for the English mistakes. But I need to manifest some thoughts about this movie.The worst thing about art is that when some creation is not art, it uses all dirty disguises trying to be art. And the result normally is something pretentious, pedant, meaningless and BORING!!! It's exactly what happens here with this movie: pretending to be a example of refined cinema making, it results, in fact, in a very BORING and pretentious movie, full of pedant, slow dialogues that make banal reflections about the main theme, sex. It is, at the end, a dishonest creation, very weak art. It would be better if that was a simple porn, it would be more honest.

Leofwine_draca Lars von Trier has ever been a censor-baiting director and he seemed to reach new extremes of sex and sadistic violence with his ANTICHRIST. His new NYMPHOMANIAC films go even further, pushing the boundaries of on-screen sexuality with pornographic depictions of coupling and the like, so these films are only recommended for the least prudish of viewers.NYMPHOMANIAC VOL. I is certainly an interesting and intriguing viewing experience and would remain so even if you took away all of the gratuitous sex and sexual situations involved. It's a character study of a woman who is first discovered battered and broken in a shady alleyway. The quiet and bookish Stellan Skarsgard brings her back to his apartment, where she tells him her life story up until the halfway mark. Skarsgard has long been a watchable presence in cinema and he actually turned out to be my favourite character in this. Although he's present only on the sidelines, I loved the way his character brought theory and academia to the story, drawing parallels with various historical and religious stories. His relationship with Charlotte Gainsbourg feels naturalistic and spiky.The rest of the film is a mixed bag. Some of it is repulsive (involving the young underage girl), and other parts are depressing (the Christian Slater character). Shia LaBeouf gives a surprisingly good performance (despite the dodgy accent) as a character of depth and humanity which you wouldn't believe based on his first scene. The set-piece sequence with an outstanding Uma Thurman is a definite highlight here and one of the cringiest/most awkward things I've ever watched on screen. Much of this film rests on the shoulders of the young and slight Stacy Martin, an actress who exudes an icy fragility throughout, and watching her character growing up on screen is quite the experience. VOL. II takes the story down ever-darkening pathways, and must be watched in conjunction with this instalment (like KILL BILL, the film was only broken into two parts due to the length).