How “Nymphomaniac” was shot, the movie that shocked the world and is now popular on Netflix

Neither 365 Days nor 50 shades of Gray. The most erotic movie hosted on Netflix is ​​Nymphomaniac. Imagine what der tour de force is Lars von Trier available but softened.

It’s a sex epic full of superstars divided into eight chapters and, in turn, into two volumes. In Argentina it premiered 7 years ago in BAMA, under the subway tracks, and that, even now, seems like the perfect place to see it. And on top of that, the entrance fee is 50 pesos.

The plot is as simple as in the The Film Zone films shown that night: an old man finds a severely wounded woman on the street and takes her home to treat her wounds. He healed her and she, healed, took advantage of the meeting to tell him her story.

Small detail: her story is not just a story, it is a description of her sexual assault. joe -he- was initially played by Stacey Martin and then, in its adult version, by Charlotte Gainsbourg. He is Stellan Skarsgård. Then they appeared umma thurman, Jamie Bell, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Connie NielsonWillem Defoe, among other stellar surnames.

The question, then, remains hidden: How did they get these high-flying actors and actresses to lend themselves to recording “explicit” sexual scenes? The answer is a bit discouraging.

Explanations are provided louise westthe film’s producer, when he talked about why Nymphomaniac didn’t make it to Cannes 2013. The project required a lot of post-production and they weren’t given the time by Zentropa and company.

One of the reasons for the widespread “postpro” has to do with sexual scenes. Those seen having sex in the final cut are the aforementioned actors and actresses, but also double the body. Yes, at once.

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ang Lars von Trier’s film shot stuntmen having real sex focused on their lower half and well -known actors pretending to have sex and then using the upper half of their bodies. In post-production he put together and voilá, the magic of cinema.

“We took actors pretending to have sex and then we did double the body, who actually had sex, and in publication we would impose them digitally,” Vesth explained to The Hollywood Reporter before they finished editing of the movie “So above from the waist will be the star and below the waist will be double,” he added.

Due to this complex editing work, the project was delayed and Nymphomaniac had its world premiere in Denmark, its country of origin, and not at some prestigious festivals such as the Côte d’Azur, Berlin or Venice. The following year, in 2014, he would present an extended version at the Berlinale.

The ever -controversial Von Trier’s suggestive proposal promises a derailment from the poster itself, where the characters ’faces can be seen in the foreground, as if with orgasm.

Despite all of this, Nymphomaniac probably isn’t too impressive anymore because it can’t match the size of the knockout it delivered nearly a decade ago in a Florida movie theater.

The apocalyptic scene took place as adults and children waited for the projector on duty to fix the damaged copy of the Disney classic. The cinema to which they subscribe has no better idea than to entertain them by showing them an animated short film. Like Pixar in its best days.

The truth is that by giving “play” to what should be short, coming out on the big screen is not a children’s film. but the dangerous tape of Von Trierwhich remained flat for about two minutes.

Similar to viewers of The arrival of the train they did in the late 19th century at the Salón Indien of the Grand Café because they thought the car would appear on the screen and run into them, the men and women of the Florida Frozen function fled from the cinema in fear, intercepted . their eyes and ears.their children, nieces or nephews, as long as the little ones do not see the vulgar order of the Danes.