9 Songs
2 lovers, one summer, and the 9 songs that defined them.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 6 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 11, 2020
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Palisades Tartan
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kieran O'Brien & Margot Stilley | |
Directed by | Michael Winterbottom | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Winterbottom | |
Produced by | Andrew Eaton | |
Director of Photography: | Marcel Zyskind |
Entertainment Reviews:
Winterbottom proves that nonstop sex intercut with alternative music can be exceedingly boring.
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indieWire
It has the rough, penciled-in feel of a sketch, flurries of palpable physicality left along the path of a dissolving relationship
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CinePassion
Rating: 2/4 --
Five decades after the rest of the world twigged to it, Michael Winterbottom has discovered a connection between sex and rock 'n' roll. Bully for him.
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Toronto Star
Rating: C --
"9 Songs" is high-art pornography that doesn't neglect its compulsory gooey payoff scene.
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ColeSmithey.com
Rating: 2/4 --
Dear Mr. Winterbottom. Intercutting unsimulated sex scenes with concert footage does not a movie make. Love, David B.
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La Movie Boeuf
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Nice folks, fun time, thanks for the peek (I guess), and so what?
Philadelphia Inquirer
I like to think -- and please indulge me on this -- that my reaction to the controversial 9 Songs has more to do with the limitations of Michael Winterbottom's latest cinematic experiment than with any of my own nihilistic-horndog tendencies.
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Georgia Straight
Product Description:
From his current post in Antarctica, British glaciologist Matt (Kieran O'Brien), recalls how he met Lisa (Margo Stilley), a 21-year-old American student. They were at a rock concert at London's Brixton Academy, and he took her back to his apartment for sex. This began a brief relationship, which is revealed as Matt remembers and comments on its milestones--mainly the other concerts they attended and their significant sexual experiences--before their initial sexual attraction waned and they were forced to part.
The titular nine songs are comprised of concert performances by 1) Primal Scream, 2) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, 3) Elbow, 4) Michael Nyman, 5) Super Furry Animals, 6) The Dandy Warhols, 7) Von Bondies, 8) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club again, and 9) Franz Ferdinand. Shot on often-blurry, handheld digital video from an audience perspective, these scenes have a you-are-there effect. The sequences involving Matt and Lisa are intimate and realistic (be warned--the sex in the film is real and graphic), conveying everything one needs to know about their relationship with only the most rudimentary dialogue. With this brief, dreamlike work, director Michael Winterbottom (24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE) has theoretically created the ultimate music movie--one that is purely sex, drugs, and rock & roll. The result is akin to the feeling of listening to a great mix tape made by a former lover.
The titular nine songs are comprised of concert performances by 1) Primal Scream, 2) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, 3) Elbow, 4) Michael Nyman, 5) Super Furry Animals, 6) The Dandy Warhols, 7) Von Bondies, 8) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club again, and 9) Franz Ferdinand. Shot on often-blurry, handheld digital video from an audience perspective, these scenes have a you-are-there effect. The sequences involving Matt and Lisa are intimate and realistic (be warned--the sex in the film is real and graphic), conveying everything one needs to know about their relationship with only the most rudimentary dialogue. With this brief, dreamlike work, director Michael Winterbottom (24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE) has theoretically created the ultimate music movie--one that is purely sex, drugs, and rock & roll. The result is akin to the feeling of listening to a great mix tape made by a former lover.
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