Perhaps the most surprising thing about Lars Von Trier’s…

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While coitus, rumpy, intercourse, balling, humping, beast-with-two-back-making does function in some shape or type with extreme frequency in cinema, it just hardly ever types the main, wait it comes to sex, particularly when compared to the their much more carefree attitude toward violence, and partly because even today mainstream audiences can be put off by even a whiff of the smutty-old-man-in-a-dirty-coat connotation for it, thrust of the story, likely partly because distributors (especially in the U.S.) are often accused of a streak of puritanism when. Meaning that furthermore, films like “Nymphomaniac” that explore the darker recesses of individual sexuality—power play, taboo dreams and fetishes, BDSM, intercourse addiction, etc.—are even less. Read more “Perhaps the most surprising thing about Lars Von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac” (both components are now on VOD: here’s our summary of component 1 and Part 2) is Shia LaBeouf ’s accent so it’s a film that is completely, unashamedly, unavoidably about intercourse.” →