9 songs (2004)
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: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 9 | 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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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
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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.
Top CriticNice 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.
Audience Reviews for 9 songs
Super Reviewer
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 lowered expectations as a result, I was surprised at how good the performances were. And sad, too, since these are the kinds of roles that will really keep the leads from finding work again in mainstream cinema.
It's not the deepest film, but it achieved a level of emotional and physical honesty.
And yeah, REALLY EXPLICIT. Really. Yes, THAT explicit.
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Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Summary: Love blooms between an American student and a British glaciologist in this explicit romance with an underground-rock soundtrack. The film follows Lisa (Margo Stilley) and Matt (Kieran O'Brien) from the time they meet at a concert until Lisa departs for home. Their steamy relationship is set to the songs of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Von Bondies, Elbow, Primal Scream, The Dandy Warhols, Super Furry Animals, Franz Ferdinand and Michael Nyman.
My Thoughts: "There isn't much to say about this film. It's basically porn with some good music here and there. Really not much of a story-line. Waste of time for me. I should have read the reviews before watching this, but being a fan of music I wanted to see what the music was all about in this film. I got more ass and tits, and a bit of dick more then I did the music.. I will pass it along to others, but don't say I didn't warn you.. It's a really bad film."