- Rated R
- 2 hours, 3 minutes
Not surprisingly, Volume II devours any such romanticism almost immediately. Picking up where its predecessor left off, the brutal second chapter begins with not-so-happy couple Joe and Jerôme (Shia LeBeouf ) attempting (and failing) to live a normal existence. She’s given up sleeping with countless men, and he’s suffering mightily to satisfy her carnal urges. Their situation gets so warped that Joe loses the ability to feel any sort of sexual experience. The key to understanding the tonal differences between Volume I and Volume II is how sexuality relates to both chapters. In the first, Joe’s experimentation reflects a naïve (if not guilt-ridden) view of the world, but one not without hope. As played by Stacy Martin, the character glows with a certain reverie for epiphany, even when it’s crushed by reality.
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