If you view everything with cynicism you're paralysed by your own limited analysis of people or events. Lars von Trier (not Triers) does not speak about suffering from bipolar illness for a joke or to court the media - he is not a flash-in-the-pan pop-star. He is not actually 'cagey', but more very aware of the media taking his words as THE TRUTH and demonising him. For example, the 'I am a Nazi' comment, which I am very sure was not a rehearsed piece of promotion for Melancholia, but rather an accidental blurt-out 'joke' which didn't go down very well. This sort of blurting out and uncontrolled behaviour is very much a symptom of a form of depressive illness - a manic depressive tendency.
About Charlotte Gainsbourg, only she knows the truth of her family background and anything that has happened to her and it is up to her whether she wants to confront that or talk about it in the media. Everything else is just rumours and gossip and may have substance, who knows? I think it is a myth to describe anyone as 'oversexed' individually as if someone is alone in their 'nympho' tendencies it probably wouldn't be of interest to anyone! But, in a family or larger context in a relationship and so on, these aspects of sexual tendencies become magnified.
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