Diary of a Nymphomaniac
2008 · 102 min · Director: Christian Molina
Show plot summary (may contain spoilers)
In Barcelona, Valére is very attached to her French grandmother Marie Tasso and likes to stay with her. While discussing sex with Val, Marie advises her that it would be important to jot her life experience down and Val decides to write a diary. Val recalls her promiscuous love life and her lovers since her first sexual experience when she was 15-years-old. When Val loses her job in a downsizing, she is simultaneously informed that Marie had a heart attack and she visits her granny one last time who dies. Val looks for a job and when she is interviewed by an executive called Jaime, she falls in love for the first time. However Jaime is not good in bed. They move in together to a magnificent apartment and Val believes she has found the man of her life. Val gets a job with a gay Italian called Harry at a fashion house but Jaime becomes jealous and changes his behavior. Val decides to leave Jaime when she gets pregnant and he does not recognize the baby as his own.
Emotional fingerprint
Diary of a Nymphomaniac (2008) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Sadness 30%, Empathy 25%, Melancholy 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure
- Sadness30%
- Empathy25%
- Melancholy20%
- Love15%
- Anxiety10%
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The strongest emotional signals are Sadness, Empathy, Melancholy. Genres: Drama, Romance. AI estimate.
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Emotional journey
- Empathy
- Sadness
- Tension
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No dominant emotion
Dominant emotion: Empathy
Dominant emotion: Love
Dominant emotion: Sadness
Dominant emotion: Hope
Dominant emotion: Tension
Dominant emotion
| % | Approximate minute | Dominant emotion | Overall intensity | Empathy | Sadness | Tension |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 % | ≈ 3′ | Empathy | 38 % | 37 % | 18 % | 10 % |
| 7.5 % | ≈ 8′ | Love | 36 % | 31 % | 16 % | 10 % |
| 12.5 % | ≈ 13′ | Love | 41 % | 35 % | 25 % | 15 % |
| 17.5 % | ≈ 18′ | Sadness | 54 % | 51 % | 43 % | 26 % |
| 22.5 % | ≈ 23′ | Empathy | 65 % | 64 % | 56 % | 28 % |
| 27.5 % | ≈ 28′ | Sadness | 69 % | 61 % | 54 % | 18 % |
| 32.5 % | ≈ 33′ | Hope | 61 % | 46 % | 29 % | 18 % |
| 37.5 % | ≈ 38′ | Love | 53 % | 39 % | 14 % | 28 % |
| 42.5 % | ≈ 43′ | Hope | 55 % | 45 % | 21 % | 44 % |
| 47.5 % | ≈ 48′ | Tension | 70 % | 59 % | 40 % | 66 % |
| 52.5 % | ≈ 54′ | Tension | 85 % | 74 % | 63 % | 83 % |
| 57.5 % | ≈ 59′ | Tension | 88 % | 80 % | 73 % | 74 % |
| 62.5 % | ≈ 64′ | Empathy | 74 % | 70 % | 60 % | 45 % |
| 67.5 % | ≈ 69′ | Empathy | 57 % | 55 % | 41 % | 31 % |
| 72.5 % | ≈ 74′ | Empathy | 61 % | 56 % | 35 % | 45 % |
| 77.5 % | ≈ 79′ | Tension | 79 % | 70 % | 43 % | 70 % |
| 82.5 % | ≈ 84′ | Empathy | 88 % | 81 % | 64 % | 73 % |
| 87.5 % | ≈ 89′ | Sadness | 84 % | 79 % | 65 % | 53 % |
| 92.5 % | ≈ 94′ | Hope | 78 % | 68 % | 42 % | 42 % |
| 97.5 % | ≈ 99′ | Not enough subtitle evidence | Not enough subtitle evidence | Not enough subtitle evidence | Not enough subtitle evidence | Not enough subtitle evidence |
Man in a hole
Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.
Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.
Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.
Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.
Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.
Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.
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Cast
Hassan
Pedro
Íñigo
Alex
Alessandro
Giovanni
Cindy
Mae
Estefanía
Isa
David
Details
- Directed by
- Christian Molina
- Written by
- Cuca Canals, Luca Guadagnino, Valérie Tasso, Barbara Alberti, Cristiana Farina
- Type
- Movies
- Released
- 2008
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Country
- Spain
- Ratings
- Feels mostly
- Sadness
- Data updated
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