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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > Nymph()maniac
 
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No Wave
Sep 18, 2005

HA! HA! NICE! WHAT A TOOL!

hope and vaseline posted:

I just watched Antichrist. Good grief, that's a lot to digest. During the uh, gore heavy parts I was having to remind myself to breathe like the futile exercises Dafoe was giving to Gainsbourg early on in the film. Really looking forward to this film, and I think I'll wait a few days before tackling Melancholia.
Just watched Antichrist. Wasn't surprised to read afterwards that Von Trier was going through some serious depression at the time. So many films/pieces of literature equate futility with sexual impotence - Antichrist completely plows through that by making even sex itself absolutely futile from the get-go. Even the characters' drives are failing to get them anywhere, which is a much more realistic (and horrifying) view of depression.

Having watched it, though, I don't really see a reason to recommend it to anyone. It's not stupid or boring, it's just painful.

No Wave fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Dec 2, 2013

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No Wave
Sep 18, 2005

HA! HA! NICE! WHAT A TOOL!

Keanu Grieves posted:

I really like Lars Von Trier -- even his provocateur antics -- but I just can't get excited about Nymph()maniac, least of all because the parentheses in the title are absolutely meaningless. But the trailer is all over the map, and this just feels like a narcissistic "you've seen me but HAVE YOU SEEN ME NAKED?" vanity project from most of the actors involved. Yeah, you can simulate your O-face for a poster, but can you really find the truth in the material? The trailer is all over the map, the snippets of dialogue sound trite. I don't know, man. I just don't know.
Is this one of those times when you absolutely, positively have to have an opinion? I get like that too sometimes.

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No Wave
Sep 18, 2005

HA! HA! NICE! WHAT A TOOL!

Highly Unnecessary posted:

Charlotte Gainsbourg must be a masochist to keep working with this director.
Or perhaps she is not ashamed of being naked for her art. Impossible!

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