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9 songs (2004)

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Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 93
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 70

The unerotic sex scenes quickly become tedious to watch, and the lovers lack the personality necessary to make viewers care about them.

28

Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 21

The unerotic sex scenes quickly become tedious to watch, and the lovers lack the personality necessary to make viewers care about them.

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Average Rating: 2.7/5
User Ratings: 8,867

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Movie Info

A relationship between a British scientist and an American student is chronicled through the concerts they saw and the love they made in this highly personal romantic drama from director Michael Winterbottom. Matt (Kieran O'Brien) works with the British Antarctic Survey team, and as he travels to the South Pole and ponders the vast plains of snow and ice, his mind drifts back to his short-lived romance with Lisa (Margo Stilley), a free-spirited girl from the United States. Matt and Lisa met at a

Nov 5, 2005

Tartan Films (UK)

All Critics (99) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (71) | DVD (11)

As satisfying viewing experiences go, the film comes up mighty short in terms of story, interesting characters and technical prowess, not to mention a 65-minute running time.

November 1, 2005 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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Nice folks, fun time, thanks for the peek (I guess), and so what?

October 6, 2005 Comment
Philadelphia Inquirer
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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.

September 23, 2005 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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It is, at its (hard)core, a traditional sex movie with better music and naturalistic situations.

September 9, 2005 Comment
Detroit Free Press
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A pointless and pretentious cocktail of sex, rock 'n' roll and glaciology.

September 8, 2005 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | Comment
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Ultimately each move toward breaking a barrier or assaulting a taboo is undercut by a reliance on conformity and convention.

August 27, 2005 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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One cannot entirely condemn Winterbottom, because the film is not without its meritorious moments, yet at the same time, 9 Songs doesn't effectively traverse the line of glorified pornography, so much as it narrowly scrapes past it.

January 3, 2012 Full Review Source: What Culture | Comment

It has the rough, penciled-in feel of a sketch, flurries of palpable physicality left along the path of a dissolving relationship

September 5, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
CinePassion

"9 Songs" is high-art pornography that doesn't neglect its compulsory gooey payoff scene.

April 15, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

Une %u0153uvre pour le moins inhabituelle qui, sans être un exercice de style complètement futile, n'est toutefois pas un film que l'on pourrait qualifier d'essentiel.

August 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Panorama | Comment

The most sexually explicit legit feature film to come out of 'merry ole' England from a mainstream director.

December 16, 2005 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Seventy minutes of pneumatic sex without the trappings of characterization, plot or even attempted meaning can be a profoundly long time.

October 14, 2005 Full Review Source: Oregonian | Comment
Oregonian

At least some skin flicks try to add a story to the sex.

October 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | Comment
Arizona Daily Star

There's not much to take away from 9 Songs unless you're watching it at home... alone... preferably with some lotion.

October 13, 2005 Comment
Philadelphia Weekly

Given the graphic sex scenes, it is surprisingly dull. The music isn't great, either, now that we think about it.

September 23, 2005 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | Comment
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Audience Reviews for 9 songs

Cast: Margo Stilley, Kieran O'Brien, Huw Bunford, Cian Ciaran, Bobby Gillespie ... see more , Dandy Warhols , Alex Kapranos , Bob Hardy , Courtney Taylor-Taylor , Franz Ferdinand , Michael Nyman , Nick McCarthy Directed by: Michael Winterbottom Summary: Love blooms between an American student and a British

September 25, 2010
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PORN?!!Well, sort of. This is a tale of a relatively short relationship that plays out against a backdrop of modern British music (the two leads attend concerts together frequently). The film is a part of that teeny cinematic niche of sex films where the actors are clearly doing the actual deeds. Going in with

August 11, 2007
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