‘Nymphomaniac’ Trailer Featuring Shia Labeouf Pulled From Youtube For Violating ‘Nudity And Sexual Content’ Policy; Reinstated With Warning

The new movie by Danish art director Lars Von Trier is bound to be as controversial as its creator. "Nymphomaniac" has already intrigued viewers from around the world.

The movie only has a release date in Denmark. It is set for December 25 for a different kind of Danish Christmas treat. For the rest of the world, we only have its trailers. But it looks like we're missing that as well.

Youtube just pulled out the fifth trailer for the film. The clip was from the fifth chapter of the film, entitled "The Little Organ School" features a three-way split screen. There's a soundtrack, identified as a Bach chorale interwoven with images of Shia Labeouf of "Transformers" fame and Stacy Martin, who plays the young version of lead character "Joe." The older Joe is played by Charlotte Gainsbourg.

The scenes were indeed sexually explicit and there were also full frontal nude scenes of Stacy Martin while she talks and has oral sex with older men.

Director Lars Von Trier has been elusive ever since he was banned and branded as "Persona Non Grata" by the Cannes Film Festival Committee for his anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi comments. Most of the promotion for the film was through separate interviews from its actors and some controversial posters which depicts the actors and actresses of the film in states of (possible) sexual bliss.

Stacy Martin was a  former model who became Von Trier's muse starting with this film. She recalls when the eccentric but gifted director pitched the role to her (in an interview with The Independent):

 "We were clear this film wasn't about nakedness, but that it was part of the story. So I was comfortable with it. Lars wanted to celebrate the female desire and show we have flaws, we are human beings and not perfect. There was a lot of pressure on me as the vehicle of his vision. He said to me, 'Just take it day by day, scene by scene. It will all come together.' There is an element of trust. I had to keep remembering that he chose me, or else I wouldn't be there if I wasn't capable. Sometimes I was rubbish and he allowed me to get that out of the way."

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