A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Just like the main actor, this movie is quality stuff. Spooky, atmospheric and entertaining in its own way. The script could have been a little more spicy, but overall fluent…
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…