Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Started pretentiously, ended up as one of the best movies ever. It’s a second movie from von Trier’s depression trilogy and it’s certainly depressive. Or, better to say, beautifully melancholic.…
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.
Von Trier wanted to make this a 5 hour long movie, but had to split it. Such a commitment to the topic of nymphomania. But what he got is rather…