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    " Forget About Love"
    Country
    Spoken Language
    Runtime 2 hr 3 min
    Premiere: World $4 935 033 December 25, 2013
    USA $327 167
    Other countries $4 607 866
    Premiere: USA $327 167 April 4, 2014
    theaters 31
    rollout 272 days
    Digital: World March 20, 2014
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    • Frightening & Intense Scenes

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    • Profanity

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    • Violence & Gore

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    • Sex & Nudity

      plenty

    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      few

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    Description

    The continuation of Joe’s sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adulthood, obsessions and what led to her being in Seligman’s care.

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    Executive producer and Zentropa co-founder Peter Aalbæk Jensen revealed that the film is to be two parts. "We are making two films. It is a big operation. I personally hope that we should be ready for Cannes next year. We will shoot both and edit both – and we want to finish both at the same time." He explained there will be two versions of each film: an explicit cut and a softer cut.

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    Critique: 21

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    ReelViews March 27, 2014

    Exhaustingly repetitive, this movie attempts many of the same things its predecessor did but with less success.

    Rolling Stone April 3, 2014

    As in Volume I, filmmaker Lars Von Trier keeps the same themes at play about female sexual power and male attempts to tame and abuse it. But repeti...

    New York Post April 3, 2014

    Sex addiction recovery groups may have just found their new recruitment video. "Nymphomaniac: Volume II" makes the act look about as enjoyable as g...

    The Dissolve March 24, 2014

    [The film is] about a woman chasing a feeling […] With thoughtfulness and passion, von Trier strives to give his audience a high, accompa...

    Slant Magazine March 30, 2014

    The sex in Nymphomaniac is inhuman, mechanical, boring, and predictably viewed through the (male) scrim of someone who characterizes women solely a...

    Chicago Reader April 3, 2014

    The shocker ending struck me as both gimmicky and ill motivated, but up until then this confirms von Trier as the cinema’s most accomplished...

    Detroit News April 11, 2014

    It’s very weird, given, but it’s also effective.

    New York Daily News April 3, 2014

    Here we go again.

    Village Voice April 1, 2014

    Nymphomaniac is a jigsaw opus, an extended and generally exquisitely crafted riff.

    Film.com April 3, 2014

    This is a frustrating, fundamentally flawed movie, but if one must consider it two separate animals, this latter one is demonstrably better.

    Chicago Tribune April 3, 2014

    "Vol. I" works. "Vol. II" works you over, and von Trier likes it like that.

    Los Angeles Times April 4, 2014

    Von Trier is such a masterful filmmaker that every new project comes on with the expectation and air of a totalizing masterwork. "Nymphomaniac...

    Newark Star-Ledger April 4, 2014

    True, von Trier films all the ugliness beautifully – with occasional breaks for mystic images, and bad jokes. But to what point?

    altfg.com April 7, 2014

    It’s who "we" are individually and as a society that Lars von Trier is questioning - a few personal issues involving his own family reve...

    AV Club March 20, 2014

    Nymphomaniac may at best be a digression, but it’s not one of Von Trier’s weaker ones.

    christylemire.com April 9, 2014

    The Lars von Trier you know and love (or love to hate) is back: cynical, misanthropic, punishing.

    RogerEbert.com April 4, 2014

    Vol. I felt much wider in scope, crazier, satirical, goofy even. Vol. II narrows the lens, and has more of a desire to explain, to diagno...

    SFGATE April 3, 2014

    The "Nymphomaniac" films are an artistic dead-end for Von Trier. He is most certainly feeling something, but he’s short-circuiting his own em...

    Arizona Republic April 3, 2014

    This is a good movie, but it lacks the visual wonder of the first, along with the sense of play at which von Trier, even at his most controver...

    New York Times April 3, 2014

    The problem with "Nymphomaniac: Volume II" lies not in its display of erect penises and reddened buttocks, but rather in its dull narrative and ove...

    Austin Chronicle April 3, 2014

    Sometimes more is less. At least, that’s the case with this second volume of Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac.

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    Watched

    Mia Goth’s 29th birthday (I can’t stand her) is a reason to watch it. As Shnur sang, "I feel sorry for no one, no one." A film about moral freaks brought to the point of absolute disgust. Watching an abortion with a coat hanger and the heroine’s bloody crotch is not much fun. I’m not that sick a bastard

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    There is nothing to add, the same opinion as about the first part. Glad only the appearance of Dafoe

    Watched

    How much do you have to love and respect women to make such a heartfelt film? And at the same time, how disgusting is patriarchal society, if it dictates to a woman to take on the burden of guilt for wanting more from life than is useful, demanding rights as a woman.

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    …interesting. But the second film jumps from the heights of emotions to morality. With sluggish dynamics, this leads first to boredom, and later to a finale comparable to sex without lubrication. The only thing you can’t take away from all this is the cool idea of changing actresses after childbirth. Like, this is how motherhood ages a woman)

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