A conversation about morphine dosing between Young Joe and her dying father’s physician was sad and moving.

Joe is a firsthand witness as her father deteriorates from an unnamed illness, into fits of violent spasms, paranoid delusions and screams for his wife. Joe tells Seligman she is not sure where to conclude her story as she has used every item from around his room to help inspire each "chapter". At one point, Young Joe commands Jerôme to “fill all my holes,” and we see him go at her from behind with his fingers. The ways of coping become more extreme, she is damaged, loses feeling, sacrifices her family, performs a self-abortion, has sympathy for Hitler (Von Trier mocking his infamous 2011 slip-up) and paedophiles. After a suggestion from him, she notices how the stain from a cup of tea she had earlier thrown in anger looks like a Walther PPK, the same kind of gun her favourite literary character James Bond uses, and knows exactly how and where to end things.

An incremental marketing campaign was used to promote the film, as brief video segments, each described as an "appetizer" by the film's production company, were released online leading up to the film's release date.

Ever since NYMPHOMANIAC was announced as Lars von Trier's next project it's been out in the open that the film would be distributed in different versions, ensuring financing, and as widespread distribution of NYMPHOMANIAC as possible, and finally to ensure Lars von Trier as much artistic freedom as possible. Martin stated that her acting experience for the film was enjoyable and, after explaining that the film's characters are a reflection of the director himself, referred to the process as an "honour. He looks over and - from his point of view - we see the reflected image of a camera shooting the film the audience is watching. Accepting the studios choices additionally secured that he would have future financers for his visions.When looking for examples that would show that Joe's behavior is quite normal, he also talks about helicopters which actually tilt downwards when going up.

While recovering in the kind stranger’s apartment, Joe begins to recount a history of her sexual life from her childhood to young adulthood. As a young adult, Joe drops out of medical school and finds work as a secretary at a printing company. Joe reluctantly attends the meetings and, after ridding her apartment of almost everything in it, attempts sobriety. Over rugelach and a discussion over the lack of masculinity in men using cake forks to eat pastry, Joe talks about her first experiences with actual love, something she dismisses as "lust with jealousy added".

Lars von Trier's upcoming NYMPHOMANIAC is distributed in two parts (Volume I and II) and two versions (one lasting four hours in total, one in five and a half hours in total).

Von Trier has long identified this version as his true vision (the svelte four-hour theatrical cut was made to appease international censors) but in contrast to Lucas’s dogmatism, he seems happy for viewers to favour whichever version best suits their attention span. She was still very young and since she had to smile every now and again while talking about the past events she obviously does not solely remember everything as something purely evil or bad. Inspired by a fly fishing lure on the wall behind her and Seligman's love of Izaak Walton's book The Compleat Angler, Joe opens her story by talking about her precocious sexual fascination during her early childhood. While she tells this story, we can hear Seligman from off-screen making some comparisons to fishing again. He ended his review with hailing the film, saying "Lars von Trier ends up hitting the G-spot of avant-garde filmmaking with a movie only he could ever make, and gives the open-minded members of the audience one of the most powerful and sensational experiences ever seen in arts.Her father – who had previously proudly watched her – suddendly closes the book when she leaves the room. Please enter your personal data here because they are the basis of our contact with you, in case you have any problems or questions. Along with the appetizers and the character posters, five theatrical posters (three for the complete feature and one for each volume) and an international trailer featuring some of the explicit sexual scenes, were released. So how come these seemingly innocuous and important character-establishing details also wound up on the cutting-room floor? On a cold winter's evening the old, charming bachelor, Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), finds Joe beaten up in an alley.