More Poetry Than Sex In New Clip from 'Nymphomaniac'

As you'd expect from a film titled Nymphomaniac, sex is going to be a driving theme throughout, but it's obvious now that Lars von Trier is going to use it to push a number of different ideas. He'll present them in a number of different styles, as well, and as each new clip debuts they all have felt completely different than the one that preceded it.

The latest clip is another tonal shift, done in a single meditative shot of the lead character Joe (Stacy Martin, Charlotte Gainsbourg) walking towards a hospital while a narrator (kind of sounds like Stellan Skarsgard?) delivers a solemn reading from Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall Of The House Of Usher.  This is taken from Chapter 4: Delirium, and the accompanying text is as brief as the clip is somber....

Confusion. Delusion. Hallucination. The nymphomaniac's father dies.

Nymphomaniac arrives in Denmark this Christmas, with von Trier unveiling the hardcore version at Cannes. The rest of us should have a chance to see the regular version before then, perhaps in early 2014.