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Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #13. Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Volume I & II

Published on March 6, 2014

Nymphomaniac: Volume I & II

Director: Lars Von Trier
Writer: Lars Von Trier
Producer: Louise Vesth
U.S. Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Uma Thurman, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Connie Nielsen, Willem Dafoe, Mia Goth, Michael Pas, Jean-Marc Barr, Jamie Bell, Ananya Berg, Peter Gilbert Cotton

All LVT films are an event….for that matter, his press conferences too. So far, this is among the best comedies of the year.

Gist: This moves from (Nymphomaniac: Volume I) a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating to (Nymphomaniac: Volume II) Joe’s sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman’s care.

Release Date: The integral version was released in native Denmark in December, and both Sundance and Berlin showed a chunk. Magnolia are going the VOD route, putting about a month between releases.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).