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.
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
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
Unrated, 1 hr. 9 min.
Drama, Romance, Musical & Performing Arts, Art House & International
Jul 22, 2005 Limited
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.
Nice folks, fun time, thanks for the peek (I guess), and so what?
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.
It is, at its (hard)core, a traditional sex movie with better music and naturalistic situations.
A pointless and pretentious cocktail of sex, rock 'n' roll and glaciology.
Ultimately each move toward breaking a barrier or assaulting a taboo is undercut by a reliance on conformity and convention.
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.
It has the rough, penciled-in feel of a sketch, flurries of palpable physicality left along the path of a dissolving relationship
"9 Songs" is high-art pornography that doesn't neglect its compulsory gooey payoff scene.
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.
The most sexually explicit legit feature film to come out of 'merry ole' England from a mainstream director.
Seventy minutes of pneumatic sex without the trappings of characterization, plot or even attempted meaning can be a profoundly long time.
At least some skin flicks try to add a story to the sex.
There's not much to take away from 9 Songs unless you're watching it at home... alone... preferably with some lotion.
Given the graphic sex scenes, it is surprisingly dull. The music isn't great, either, now that we think about it.
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
Super Reviewer
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
Super Reviewer
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