The director’s cut of the first volume of Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier’s new $5 million theatrical feature “Nymphomaniac”, the Shia LaBeouf-starring third movie in his depression trilogy following the Willem Dafoe-led “Antichrist” and the Kirsten Dunst-led “Melancholia,” has set a world premiere out=of-competition at the Berlin International Film Festival this March.
The film joins George Clooney’s “Monuments Men” and Christophe Gans’ “Beauty and the Beast” as an out-of-competition title. Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick says in a statement: “Berlinale audiences will be the first to see the long version of Volume I. Lars von Trier, a guest of the Berlinale for the first time in 1984, returns to the festival with this film.”
The film’s production company TrustNordisk adds: “The screening in Berlin will be the only screening of the long version of volume one, until the long version of volume 2 will premiere sometime later in 2014.”
The theatrical cut of the film has scored a 76% on Rotten Tomatoes to date.
Source: Screen International
