This film, part of a trilogy on chronic depression by a self-indulgent Lars von Trier, is five hours long, hence the volumes 1 and 2 THE first issue to be settled about Lars von Trier is whether or not he is a fake. The Danish arthouse director (in an intellectual Babel) has a habit of undercutting what seem to be the premises of his own work; and one wonders about his "honesty" in blurting publicly that, though Jewish, he feels himself to be a Nazi. It certainly provoked outrage and wonder.Nymphomaniac (dead word) is intended as the last in a trilogy about chronic depression, from which Von Trier says he suffers. It follows on Melancholia (2011), in which the world ends. The film is saturated with scenes of unsimulated sex, though body doubles (and CGI) were deployed for the bottom half of what the shy actors were supposed to be doing up top. So as porn it’s no longer shocking (the Danes have long been adept at erotica); and becomes irksome, boring and laughable, which real porn c...

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