Nymphomaniac: invisible scandal?

Nymphomaniac is the new, announced scandal film by Lars von Trier, which you will surely have heard about in recent months. It was announced as the first author film with pornographic sequences, in which genitals are seen in detail in sexual acts. It is the story of Joe, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, who is found abandoned on the street by a man and who begins to tell her story as a nymphomaniac ("sex addict" corrects her in politically correct language by a "social worker to whom she turns for group therapy).

The film by the Danish director, each film an uncomfortable statement, a controversy and a "tearful actress who dissociates herself from her methods (see Bjork vexed and rebellious after Dancer in the dark), will be released at home on Christmas day (another provocation), and several countries have already bought it, while in Italy there seems to be no distributor yet. The interest in the film is such that it has led to a collection of signatures in Italy to distribute it, because at stake, in addition to obviously the need to watch, is the role of censorship and freedom of expression.

Lars von Trier has among other things announced that the film will be released in two versions, one without the porn details, lasting four and a half hours, and later during 2014 the long version of five and a half hours, with the infamous, although not yet seen by anyone, hard sequences. The stories of the actors from the set do not seem to leave room for doubt: for the porn shootings they were in fact replaced by professional actors, as told by the young Stacy Martin, who plays Joe as a young man.

© Zentropa Productions What creates a lot of anticipation is also the fact that the cast engaged in a similar film is all star: in addition to Gainsbourg, who had already been mistreated in Antichrist and has already spread his complaints about the humiliating scenes of masochism, there are in fact Shia LaBeouf, who got himself cast by sending von Trier a video in which he had sex with a "friend, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe (in Antichrist he too), Connie Nielsen, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Udo Kier, and last but not least one of the most used actors by the director, Stellan Skarsgard, who just today, after the first director "s cut, has branded the film as" a bad porn ". To fuel the expectation, a wise use of the mass media, with the diffusion of the posters of the film with the faces of the actors caught in the moment of orgasm, and a cadenced publication of several video pills that anticipate some scenes, real and own appetizers with little or nothing inside.

Of course, when it comes to von Trier you always have to take everything with a grain of salt, given that the director often oscillates between a great cunning with the mass media and scandals that deflate immediately after watching the film, to leave room only for a decisive misogyny. But to decide on the quality of the operation, it is always better to have the possibility to look at something, rather than being denied it. Or not?