A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Director:
Lars von Trier
Stars:
Willem Dafoe,
Charlotte Gainsbourg,
Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
The story follows Jack, a highly intelligent serial killer, over the course of twelve years, and depicts the murders that really develop his inner madman.
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado town. In exchange, she agrees to work for them. As a search visits the town, she finds out that their support has a price. Yet her dangerous secret is never far away.
Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass.
Director:
Gaspar Noé
Stars:
Monica Bellucci,
Vincent Cassel,
Albert Dupontel
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Director:
Yorgos Lanthimos
Stars:
Colin Farrell,
Rachel Weisz,
Jessica Barden
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.Written by
Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The train carriage where the two girls pick up strangers is German, but the ticket collector is wearing a British Railways uniform from the 1970s. See more »
Quotes
Mrs. H:
Whatever? It must be hard, when you've got everything, to know what to say!
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Crazy Credits
Near the very end of the credits there is this disclaimer: "None of the professional actors had penetrative sexual intercourse and all such scenes where [sic] performed by body doubles." See more »
Alternate Versions
The director's cut adds roughly 28 minutes of footage, expanding some of the subplots. See more »
This is actually the first time I'm writing a review online and it's because I do feel the need to evacuate that horrid impression the movie left on me. (well the part one, because I haven't seen all of the second yet, and I don't think I will; I HATE Joe's and Seligman's dialogue too much!)
Dialogue movies are often my favorite, when it's clever and funny and human. When it truly touches you. But this.... WOW, how BAD is it?!?!?!! It's seriously so annoying and boring and even frustrating, because you have to endure those pretentious interruptions all the freaking time, it is SO painful!
If we could have only seen the explorations of Joe by itself, with only Joe's character talking, it could have been a lot better. Not necessarily a great movie, but it would have been a lot more interesting and better put together. It's mostly their dialogue that is so hard to listen to, it is so bad, I literally don't have any words to depict how amateurish and just plain boring it is. I feel like Lars Von Trier, whom I will nevertheless forever love for Dogville, has attempted to somehow pastiche Tarantino, but has failed dramatically.
I don't feel the movie was a complete waste of time, I did enjoy the beginning on the train ride, and I did think at first that I was going to love the movie. But the constant back and forth from Seligman and Joe, and the images shown as they were speaking, were just too much to handle to make the movie enjoyable, even watchable.... It's really hard on me not to watch a movie until the end, but I feel like I've just seen wayyyyy enough of this one.
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This is actually the first time I'm writing a review online and it's because I do feel the need to evacuate that horrid impression the movie left on me. (well the part one, because I haven't seen all of the second yet, and I don't think I will; I HATE Joe's and Seligman's dialogue too much!)
Dialogue movies are often my favorite, when it's clever and funny and human. When it truly touches you. But this.... WOW, how BAD is it?!?!?!! It's seriously so annoying and boring and even frustrating, because you have to endure those pretentious interruptions all the freaking time, it is SO painful!
If we could have only seen the explorations of Joe by itself, with only Joe's character talking, it could have been a lot better. Not necessarily a great movie, but it would have been a lot more interesting and better put together. It's mostly their dialogue that is so hard to listen to, it is so bad, I literally don't have any words to depict how amateurish and just plain boring it is. I feel like Lars Von Trier, whom I will nevertheless forever love for Dogville, has attempted to somehow pastiche Tarantino, but has failed dramatically.
I don't feel the movie was a complete waste of time, I did enjoy the beginning on the train ride, and I did think at first that I was going to love the movie. But the constant back and forth from Seligman and Joe, and the images shown as they were speaking, were just too much to handle to make the movie enjoyable, even watchable.... It's really hard on me not to watch a movie until the end, but I feel like I've just seen wayyyyy enough of this one.