On a cold winter's evening, the old, charming bachelor Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård) finds the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe (Cha...
On a cold winter's evening, the old, charming bachelor Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård) finds the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) beaten up in an alleyway. He brings her home to his flat where he tends to her wounds while asking her about her life. He listens intently as Joe, over the next eight chapters, recounts the lustful story of her highly erotic life from infancy to the age of 50. Seligman, a widely read man, connects and analyzes Joe's stories with what he has read about.
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6. "The Eastern and the Western Church (The Silent Duck)"
Joe falls into a crisis when she realizes that she lost all interest in sex; Jerôme and she try to work on her problem, but nothing seems to work. When the two conceive a baby together, Marcel, Jerôme struggles to keep up with her constant sex demand and so he allows her to frequent other men in order to satisfy her mood. This is shown to be detrimental later however as he becomes jealous of her endeavors.
As the years pass her sexual endeavors become increasingly violent, including visits to K (Jamie Bell), a sadomasochist who ties her to a couch and beats her. The visits to this man become more and more important in her life, and at some point, they take priority over her own child. When Jerôme comes home one day to find the baby unattended, he starts watching Joe closely and, on Christmas Day, he makes her pick between her family or K. She picks the latter and, after receiving a savage beating from K, takes a path of loneliness away from her one and only possibility of a normal life.
7. "The Mirror"
Some time passes and Joe is left with some irreversible damage due to a lifetime of sexual activity. Her nymphomania is shown to be well known around the office she now works at, prompting her boss to demand she attend sex addiction anonymous groups under the threat of losing her job. After attending a meeting, she struggles to clean her apartment out of anything that reminds her of sex until she ends up masturbating with her herbarium. After three weeks of sexual sobriety, Joe drops out of the class after seeing a reflection of her younger self in a mirror, verbally attacking her therapist and every other member of the group.
8 "The Gun"
Joe turns to organized crime and uses her experience in sex and sadomasochism to beat debtors for money. Her superior, L (Willem Dafoe), recommends that she gets an apprentice to help her out. The girl in question, P, eventually ends up moving in with Joe, and they soon engage in a sexual relationship.
On one occasion during a round of debt collection, Joe notices that they are at a house belonging to Jerôme, and to make sure she is not seen she tells P to perform her first solo job. Joe soon discovers that P is cheating on her with Jerôme, and in the climax she pulls a gun on him whilst the two are walking down an alley. When she pulls the trigger, she forgets to cock the pistol and Jerôme viciously beats Joe, then penetrates P in front of her in the same way he took Joe's virginity. P then urinates on her and they leave her as she was at the beginning of the story.
In the present Seligman describes to Joe that the circumstances of her life might have been due to differences in gender representation; all of the stigma, guilt and shame she felt for her actions made her fight back aggressively 'like a man'. He also states that she subconsciously did not want to kill Jerome and so forgot to remember how to cock a gun. Joe, who has until this moment been playing devil's advocate to Seligman's assumptions, announces she is too tired to go on and asks to go to sleep.
As she begins to drift off, Seligman returns, and climbs into Joe's bed with his pants off, attempting to initiate sexual intercourse, despite his claims of being asexual. The film cuts to black. We hear Seligman protest, followed by Joe cocking the gun, a gunshot, and sounds of Joe fleeing the apartment.
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