Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

10/16/2026

On the face of it, this is just rather crudely presented soft-porn; but I think that if you bother to look a little deeper then this is actually quite an empowering film. That not to say that it's good - I don't think it is; but it is one of the first films with what could be described as having anything like an A-list cast to deal with the sexual needs/wants/addictions of a woman. Charlotte Gainsbourg is a sexual animal who recounts the tales of her encounters to Stellan Skarsgård whom she has only just met having fainted whilst out walking in the woods. He acts as a rather sagely sounding board provoking and absorbing in equal measure - but clearly without any physical or sexual interest in her himself. There's a bit of the child-in-the-sweetshop about this von Trier effort: the more sex