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'Nymphomaniac Volume II': Even less funny, less sexual and more ridiculous than the first
By RICHARD ROEPER Movie Columnist April 3, 2014 2:28PM
Joe Charlotte Gainsbourg
Seligman Stellan Skarsgard
Young Joe Stacy Martin
Jerome Shia LaBeouf
K Jamie Bell
Magnolia Pictures presents a film written and directed by Lars von Trier. Running time: 124 minutes. No MPAA rating. Opens Friday at Landmark Century Centre and available on demand,
Just because a film is made by a renowned and controversial director some regard as a mad genius doesn't mean it can't be as repulsive at times as a torture porn sequel cranked out by some cynical hack.
In the second half of Lars von Triers' five-hour, sexually charged but almost never erotic film about one woman's journey from Milan to Minsk — sorry, one woman's journey through a lifetime of defining herself through her constant need for sexual encounters — there is a scene among the most distasteful I've ever witnessed in a mainstream film.
A little background first. For those who skipped the first installment of the film, "Nymphomaniac" begins with a middle-aged academic named Seligman (Stellan Skarsgard) finding a bloodied and beaten woman in an alley near his apartment. Her name is Joe. (Stacy Martin plays the young Joe; Charlotte Gainsbourg plays Joe in middle age.) Seligman scoops up Joe and nurses her recovery as she recounts the salacious details of a near constant stream of sex since she was a teenage girl and she made a sport of seeing how many men she could seduce on a train.
In the scene in question, Jamie Bell (about as far as you can get from "Billy Elliott") plays "K," a methodically brutal sadist who slaps, ties up, whips and otherwise degrades women who have come to him, asking for such humiliation. K bends Joe over a sofa, her wrists and legs so tightly bound that if she squirms even a little bit, it will only succeed in tightening the knots. He pulls her dress over her hips, takes down her underwear, and beats her so viciously she bruises up and bleeds.
That Bell gives a terrifyingly effective performance only makes the scene that much more difficult to watch. That von Trier lingers over Joe's physical suffering while Gainsbourg conveys the emotional madhouse that is this woman's psyche didn't make me admire the director's willingness to push the envelope. It was far too sickening to be even the least bit enlightening. There was an element of cruelty to the scene that took me right out of the film. Of course Bell didn't really inflict serious injuries on Gainsbourg; of course it was all designed to … well. I don't know. Remind us once again of how seriously damaged this woman is? We already got that point.
"Nymphomaniac Volume I" actually had some sexy moments, and more than few pitch-black chuckles. There was also something to be said for the sheer lunacy of the asexual Seligman comparing Joe's encounters to fishing and the Fibonacci sequence.
Plus we had Shia LaBeouf establishing himself as the clear frontrunner for Worst Accent of the Year, as he drifted in and out of a Cockney accent as Jerome, who takes Joe's virginity, at her request. But in the second hour, "Nymphomaniac Volume I" grew tedious and repetitive — and "Nymphomaniac Volume II" is less funny, less sexual, more ridiculous AND the ending is like the payoff of a cheap and very long con.
Joe and Jerome reconnect and try to have a conventional family, but you can imagine how that plays out. Joe gets a job as a debt collector for the mob, because she has a very particular set of skills (and an utter lack of empathy) that allow her to extract the truth from weak-willed men.
Oh, and Joe also grooms a next generation nympho, a Joe 2.0 if you will, by going to the young girl's volleyball games, bringing her home, having sex with her and also making her feel less self-conscious about her cauliflower ear. Yes, it's all intriguingly weird, but eventually it's all about the weird and we find Joe and her increasingly sad and self-destructive escapades less and less interesting. Joe labels key people in her life by a simple letter, working chronologically from the letter "A." (Jerome is the rare exception who gets a name.) Jamie Bell is K, Willem Dafoe is L, Mia Goth is P. One begins rooting for Seligman to say, "Can we just skip to X, Y and Z?"
At times Von Trier flashes, so to speak, some wonderfully effed-up visual humor, as when two brothers who don't speak a word of English argue about who's going to do what with Joe, their respective physical excitements bobbing up and down as the argument gets more heated. The comical miscasting of LaBeouf aside, most of the performances here are intensely effective. Before the Gainsbourg-Skarsgard dynamic gives way to the insanely stupid ending, it's a pleasure to watch these skilled actors conversing on a set so sparse they could be onstage in a two-character play.
But for all of von Trier's attempts to go big and go bold, the two "Nymphomaniac" films ultimately come across as a self-indulgent marathon run on a treadmill. We've seen every inch of Joe's body and we've explored myriad corners of her mind and soul. It's an exhausting exercise in going nowhere slow.


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Someone needs to give Melissa "Missy" Roe her own reality show. Missy has what most of those babes on the various Real Housewives shows don't have: a real life. She has a real job (Roe serves as chief of staff and legislative director for U.S. Congressman Sam Graves), a real crown (she was voted Mrs. Missouri USA in 2010) and a real blog. A food blog called the Perfect Bite: Kansas City.
Roe also has a powerful husband, Jeff Roe — a political consultant popular with right-wing candidates — a hefty man who looks like he hasn't ever missed a meal. Luckily, the lithe Missy shares his passion for food, but without any visible weight gain. (She exercises and eats sensibly when she's not dining out, she says.) But her passion for eating was the driving force behind the Perfect Bite. She explains it all on her blog site: "I'm always looking for that 'perfect bite.' Whether it's the section of the burger where the toppings line up perfectly or the exact amount of fruit to top my bite of foie gras, somewhere there's a balance combination that exceeds your expectations."
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Missy Roe, unlike many other local food bloggers, has actually worked in the restaurant business. She was a waitress at the Yia Yia's restaurant in Wichita while majoring in communications at Wichita State. Her classmate Aaron Confessori — owner of Westport Cafe & Bar and the Boot — remembers her wearing her starched Oxford shirt and apron, leaving campus to start her shift at the restaurant. After college, Roe worked as a TV news reporter for station KMIZ in Columbia, Missouri, covering crime and the courts.
"But I had always loved politics," Missy says. She joined the Sam Graves staff in 2005. She met her future husband while working for Graves; Roe served as chief of staff for Sam Graves until 2005, when he left to form his consulting firm, Axiom Strategies.
"Jeff is my biggest champion," Missy says. "He was the reason I started my blog. I was posting things I had written about food and restaurants on my Facebook page and taking my own photos. Jeff said, 'You need to start a food blog.' So he built a blog with my name on it, and I took it from there."
The Perfect Bite: Kansas City is sort of an online memoir of one woman's search. Not for the meaning of life, but something a little more earthy: "I'm continually searching for an amazing new food experience," Roe writes. "That's really all you need to know — small-town girl now indulging in Kansas City's culinary offerings and beyond. No authority on food here. I just want to partake in the feast!"
Of course, Missy wants to partake in the feast. The native of Tyrone, Oklahoma (population 1,000), wasn't exposed to a variety of culinary possibilities as a girl. The restaurant choices were few: Pizza Hut, El Amigo Chavez and the Hong Kong. "It was the only Asian restaurant in town that wasn't a buffet," she says.
The Perfect Taste: Kansas City blog offers up Roe's observations on the local restaurant scene. She doesn't pretend to have a definitive view (her writing style is girlish, honest and unpretentious), but she knows what she likes. And if she doesn't, well damn it, she says so! Describing the Buttermilk Cider Chicken at Thomas Restaurant, Roe writes that the boneless breast was "covered in a light melty cheese, likely swiss." Roe also writes that it was "a very nice dish I would order again, but probably not drive across town to get."
"You could get a little more critical," I suggested.
"I'm just now learning how to voice what I felt and experienced at a meal," she said.
But Missy Roe has learned the art of diplomacy in her political career. She might not drive all the way across town (the Roes live near Liberty) to eat Buttermilk Cider Chicken in midtown for a second time. But then again ... she might.
This sense of diplomacy served her well when she took on the Mrs. USA Missouri Pageant. Her personal trainer goaded her into it, but Missy is nothing if not competitive. On very short notice, Roe entered the pageant, pulled a suit and an evening gown out of her closet, and drove to St. Joseph, Missouri, for the event. It was only when she was actually onstage, answering questions posed by the panel of judges, that she had an epiphany: "What am I doing here?" She was voted second runner-up.
Her success in 2009 inspired Missy to enter the pageant again the following year. This time she was determined to win. She did. It propelled her to the Mrs. United States National Pageant in Las Vegas ("The Premiere Pageant for Married Women") where she tied for 13th place. Mrs. Mississippi won the crown.
As political campaigns begin heating up this summer — Graves is running for re-election — Roe realizes that she may not have time to post on her blog every day.
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Bayern Munich gained revenge for a 2-1 defeat at home to Bayer Leverkusen by winning the reverse fixture by the same scoreline at the BayArena.
Mario Gomez put Jupp Heynckes' side in front, but they needed a rather fortunate own goal from Philipp Wollscheid to win the game late on after Simon Rolfes had brought the hosts level.
The win restores Bayern's 20-point cushion at the top of the table with only eight games of the season left while Leverkusen now trail second-placed Borussia Dortmund by four points and remain six clear of Eintracht Frankfurt and Schalke in fourth.
Bayern played with a weakened side as Heynckes gave rests to captain Philipp Lahm, Franck Ribery, Thomas Muller and Mario Mandzukic.
Gomez was chosen to lead the attack, and he put Bayern in front in the 37th minute, taking Xherdan Shaqiri's pass down on his chest before beating Sebastian Boenisch and poking the ball past Bernd Leno.
It was a deserved lead for the visitors after Arjen Robben and Jerome Boateng had also gone close.
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Sidney Sam, whose goal decided affairs at the Allianz Arena, was sent on by Bayer's joint coaches Sami Hyypia and Sascha Lewandowski, and he gave the hosts a boost with a shot which tested Manuel Neuer and gave the home team belief.
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A restaurant worth buying out for 120 people?
- Pei Jan 28, 2007 11:55 PM
I'm tossing around ideas for a wedding...
Is there a restaurant that's delicious enough to be worth buying out for a group of 120? I know that's not many, but the list on opentable.com isn't particularly inspiring (Jar, for example. Food's not bad, but what an uninspired interior).
Has anyone had experience buying out a restaurant in LA, northern OC, or the western IE for a group of 12?
I have some other ideas I'm tossing around, and I'll post for help as they come to me.
Depending on your budget... Cicada! You can either get the entire place, or I believe you can rent out the upstairs lounge area. Either way, there's no better interior, and while the food sometimes gets dissed or dismissed on this board, when I was there for a wedding (about 115 people) the food was fantastic. Best wedding food I've ever had, and every guest said the same thing. Ok, so it was my wedding, but I'm perfectly capable of objectivity!
You really can't beat the setting. It was a pretty dreamy evening. Can't recommend it enough, actually.
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Thanks! The website is beautiful. May I ask what kind of budget we're talking about for 115 people? Just a rough number is fine. Was it a $30k wedding or a $100k wedding, for example? I will call today and ask; it would just be nice to know what someone else got away with paying. :) Thanks so much
The catering menu does look good: http://www.cicadarestaurant.com/Menus...
I just can't bear to send out invitations with chicken, beef, and salmon as the choices for dinner. SNORE! I'd lose all my Chowhound cred.
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Well, we definitely went over the tiny budget we'd hoped for, but negotiated with them to do a 3 course served meal (their wait staff was fantastic - formal enough to make it seem really special) for 115 for 10K. We had the entire place all night -- but, we did it on a Sunday night in order to get that price. Saturday or Friday prices are much higher. After looking at a lot of different places, we chose Cicada and it was really the most amazing night.
Obviously, with chowhoundish tendencies, the food was really important to us, and we were really, really pleased. Oh, we also had open bar all evening, and passed hors d'ouerves during the cocktail hour. Now that I think of it, with the extra things we asked them to do (special menus for the kids, vender meals, etc.) it was closer to 15k... still, not bad, considering.
Good luck with all the planning! Let us know how it's all going. My wedding was last year, and I'm more than happy to talk wedding.
Oh, and about the penthouse at the top of the Oviatt building -- that was what we'd originally wanted to do, but it was just going to be way out of our budget. But, if you can swing it, it would be pretty spectacular!
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Sure thing - I'll shoot off an email in a minute. I just wanted to add here that Cicada was also our choice because we wanted to have the ceremony and reception in the same place... so we had the ceremony downstairs, then cocktail hour upstairs while they set up tables downstairs, then guests came back down for dinner and dancing. (We hired a band.) It worked really well.
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How about the Penthouse at the top of the building that Cicada is in, The Oviatt, that is stunning.
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Sorry about that. Definitely 120. I wish it were 12.
I looked into doing this exact thing. I was very impressed by Cafe Del Rey in Marina del Rey. The food is good and they seemed very, very easy to work with. There is room for a dance floor, they'll let you order off the entire menu, they'll give you a deal on the bar (by the drink or by the person -- whichever is cheaper at the end of the night), etc. You'd probably be looking at something in the area of $25,000 to rent out the entire place.
Have you considered Chinese?
You can reserve the entire restaurant (and not just a room) at Triumphal Palace in Alhambra if your party is 120 (e.g. 12 tables at 10 persons/table). Depending on your menu, the price for food for each table can be anywhere from $250 to $800+.
I don't know about prices, but if Italian sounds interesting, I think either Matteo's in Westwood or Cucina Paradiso would be fantastic for a wedding.
How about La Boheme? Really dramatic interior and lovely outdoor patio. I haven't been there in a while, but I hear the food has gotten pretty good with a relatively new chef.
I've been to a large party at Cicada and it was terrific. Also...if you can find it, Zagat used to publish a marketplace guide (not sure if they do anymore - mine's a couple of years old) similar to rest guide - Focus however, was on rentable restaurants & sites, caterers etc. It's a great resource for what you're looking for.
I had my wedding reception at Cicada as well. And while i can't speak to budget (i was the groom :)), everything was truly perfect. A really stunning place to have a wedding, if you're into the art deco semi old fashioned thing. I highly reccommend black tie if you're having it there.
The penthouse, while also stunning, would be a bit tight for 120. i think that's right around their absolute max for that space. I went to a wedding there as well, and it can be great depending on time of year, but you don't want people to feel cramped.


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