Nymphomaniac written and directed by Lars von Trier was the 2014 Nominee for The European Film Award for European Actress for Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård was also nominated for European Film Award for European Actor, and the Nominee for European Film Award for European Film for Lars von Trier and here is the promotion for my blog and YouTube channel, where you find more than five thousand (taken together, blog and channel) notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages, together with reviews of books from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you wish to subscribe

 

Nymphomaniac written and directed by Lars von Trier was the 2014 Nominee for The European Film Award for European Actress for Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård was also nominated for European Film Award for European Actor, and the Nominee for European Film Award for European Film for Lars von Trier and here is the promotion for my blog and YouTube channel, where you find more than five thousand (taken together, blog and channel) notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages, together with reviews of books from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you wish to subscribe

 

 

8 out of 10

 

Lars von Trier has been nominated eight times, if I have the right count, for The Palme d’Or, in my book, the most important cinematic prize – even if I sometimes disagree, as in the case of Titane written and directed by Julia Ducournau – which means that this writer – director is one of the best there is, however controversial

 

Saltburn https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/saltburn-screenplay-by-emerald-fennell.html comes to mind, although Nymphomaniac is much more explicit, Variety said ‘it pushes the envelope with footage of acts previously relegated to the sphere of pornography’ but they have in common the urge to push the envelope

Nymphomaniac has scenes of sex that are unbelievable, in that you had not seen this before, not in a mainstream feature, and I think I have read somewhere that they used professional actors, those in the sex industry, in many ways understandable, we have always had taboos, and then works (of art?) that broke the rules

 

In Saltburn, there are at least two moments that go beyond the limit – as seen from here – and one of them is when the main character talks to this rich, spoiled young woman and he is trying to seduce her, I have forgotten how they reach the point where he talks about going down, she says she has her period, but he goes there nonetheless

Charlotte Gainsbourg is an excellent thespian https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/promise-at-dawn-written-and-directed-by.html and I was thinking how could she accept all this, the pornographic fragments, where she appears to have a threesome, with two men penetrating her at the same time, even if she is not in the scene

 

As mentioned before, the film was acclaimed – and surely rejected at the same time, but the denial surely came from less cultivated circles, bigots, purists, and this space, still, I am not sure if I appreciate this, or just see it as a provocation, laudable just for that, but not really per se – so who am I to judge it, criticize it?

Chloe Sevigny https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-dead-dont-die-written-and-directed.html has made a movie with her then lover, and she may be the first film star to perform oral sex on the screen…maybe the only one so far, except there is this film that won the Golden Bear in 2001, Intimacy with Mark Rylance

 

And the less known Kerry Fox – this was in the news for ‘inclusion of unsimulated sex scenes — particularly one involving a real act of fellatio between the lead actors…’ let me get off the subject for a few lines and say that we have been discussing the most likely nominees for this year’s Golden Globes and Academy Awards

Frankenstein came into the conversation, this actor, who may be moving to Sibiu, says that they have changed the rules and if it was aired on Netflix, then it could not qualify, I doubt this, but then who knows, it could be true…notwithstanding this handicap, I have not really liked the first fifteen minutes or so, and had to abandon watching it

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’