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I saw the "abridged" version last week (working in film distribution) and it's a great movie. Clocking in at four hours never did it feel too long or anything. Quite the contrary: I'd happily sit through a longer cut, should it ever materialise. I did like Melancholia but have mixed feelings about Antichrist, so it's nice to see that his "trilogy of depression" is closing strong. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to go into any kind of detail. I know, this all sounds very "my uncle works at Nintendo", but if you guys have any questions shoot anyway. I'll try to dance around our internal NDA as much as possible. Just don't be mad if most of my answers are "sorry, can't go into this".
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That's the one question my friends asked as well. Nothing else  Not nearly as bad and controversial as the whole buzz around the movie. There's the occasional explicit "hardcore" shot (mostly oral sex) and a whole lot of nudity but it never feels forced. Of course some people will be offended anyway, but that's to be expected given the subject matter. Should the director's cut ever become availabe the amount of controversial shots will apparently increase immensely. Maybe (hopefully?!) we'll get to see that one early next year. I expected the sex to be more natural than it really was. There are some scenes that resemble "real sex" and then there are moments that basically look like the stuff Hollywood wants sex to look like. I don't know if that has been done on purpose. Maybe I'm missing a point von Trier is trying to make. Whoever did the special effects (you know, fusing the actors with the pornstar genitals) deserves some kind of award by the way. That stuff is just seamless. I hope someone sends a "for your consideration" reel to the Academy. While I was typing this, the first reviews got sent around the office. They are talking about all this stuff way better than I am: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie/nymphomaniac/review/666158 http://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/film-review-lars-von-triers-nymphomaniac-1200964948/
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superjew posted:I would have liked it better if the guy in front of me didn't laugh heartily at Seligman's line before he gets shot. It twisted the moment for me. Our community theater put it on in two parts separated by a week; is this how it's meant to be viewed? I really would have preferred the full movie with an intermission. It was hard for me to remember details from part I that would have made the ending a little less shocking for me. German release has been one month apart and I think some other countries did it like this as well. The movie is definitely meant to be one long piece, but production decided that it'd make more sense for distribution and theatres to release it as a two-parter. Financially, they have a point. Theatres can show a two hour movie four to five times a day, but four hours will get two showings max and even those have to start quite early so people won't be too tired at the end. Obviously, you also get to charge twice the price of admission. I've talked to people that worked on the movie and, for them at least, the only "real" version is the 5,5h long LvT-cut that'll hopefully be released as soon as the full version Vol. 2 will have been shown at a festival (it probably won't be Cannes  ). Having worked on the Berlinale screening of Vol. 1 (uncut) not even we have heard a single peep about the release of part two. It's finished, but everybody's completely silent on the subject. Which really sucks, because the longer version of Vol. 1 is so much better than the one that has been released world wide.
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