Nine (2009)
Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 195
Fresh: 72 | Rotten: 123
It has a game, great-looking cast, led by the always worthwhile Daniel Day-Lewis, but Rob Marshall's Nine is chaotic and curiously distant.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 29
It has a game, great-looking cast, led by the always worthwhile Daniel Day-Lewis, but Rob Marshall's Nine is chaotic and curiously distant.
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From the creative team behind the Oscar-winning adaptation of Chicago comes a lavish feature take on the Tony award-winning musical inspired by Federico Fellini's whimsical classic 8 1/2. Directed by Rob Marshall, Nine details the effort made by world-class filmmaker Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) in realizing his latest cinematic vision while simultaneously balancing his relationships with the many passionate and influential women in his life, including his mistress, Carla (Penélope Cruz),
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Cast
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Daniel Day-Lewis
Guido Contini -
Marion Cotillard
Luisa Contini -
Penelope Cruz
Carla -
Kate Hudson
Stephanie -
Nicole Kidman
Claudia -
Judi Dench
Lilli -
Sophia Loren
Mamma -
Fergie
Saraghina -
Ricky Tognazzi
Dante -
Giuseppe Cederna
Fausto -
Valerio Mastandrea
De Rossi -
Elio Germano
Pierpaolo -
Martina Stella
Donatella -
Roberto Nobile
Jaconelli -
Andrea Di Stefano
Benito -
Roberto Citran
Doctor Rondi -
Roberta Mastromichele
Roberta -
Francesca Fanti
Dinardo -
Enzo Cilenti
Leopardi -
Marcello Magni
Doctor -
Anna-Maria Everett
Nurse -
Francesco De Vito
Radio Reporter -
Remo Remotti
Cardinal -
Michele Alhaique
Don Mario -
Giuseppe Spitaleri
Young Guido -
Damiano Bisozzi
Bellman -
Mario Vernazza
Principal -
Vincent Riotta
Luigi -
Simone Cappotto
Simone -
Alessia Piovan
Alessia -
Anna Safroncik
Actress -
Giacomo Valdameri
Actor -
Eleonora Scopelliti
Screen Test Actress 1 -
Ilaria Cavola
Screen Test Actress 2 -
Shannon Belcastro
Film Crew -
Jean Martin
Film Crew -
Joey Pizzi
Film Crew -
Kerry Warn
Film Crew -
Monica Scattini
Pensione Matron -
Georgina Leonidas
Matron's Daughter -
Marco Liotti
Male Band Singer -
Enzo Squillino Jr.
Reporter 1 -
Michael J. Peluso
Reporter 2 -
Jonathan Del Vecchio
Reporter 3 -
Jake Canuso
Reporter 4 -
Eliot Giuralarocca
Reporter 5 -
Tommaso Colognese
Reporter -
Jennifer Iacono
Reporter -
Vicky Lambert
Reporter -
Lavinia Savignoni
Reporter -
Mark Bousie
'Foiles' Pianist -
Massimiliano Belsito
Priest on the Beach -
Roberto Sbraccia
Priest on the Beach -
Romina Carancini
Production Assistant -
Alessandro Denipoti
Production Assistant -
Antonio Fiore
Production Assistant -
Erica Gohdes
Production Assistant -
Gianluca Frezzato
Production Assistant -
Paola Zaccari
Production Assistant -
Pietro Lais
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All Critics (195) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (72) | Rotten (123) | DVD (3)
Nine is, if not a grand work, terrifically tasty eye and ear candy. Two numbers -- from somewhat unexpected quarters -- are worth the price of admission alone.
Top CriticNine should have been called 4Â 1/2 because it doesn't come close to the work of the master who inspired it.
The film suffers from the simple fact that its songs aren't memorable.
It's a movie about a musical about a movie about a man's inner life -- surely we can eliminate some of the middle men.
There's a lot of high-powered star wattage in Nine, but it never generates much heat.
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What we get is a film that is close in story to Fellini's film, but which needed more time for its actresses and better music to make it all worthwhile.
Day-Lewis, over-egging the angst as well as the Eye-talian accent, is charmless and insufferable. But the person you really want to slap is Marshall, whose brash directing style simply doesn't suit Nine's more whimsical charms.
It has a lot to gnaw on, but it's worth gnawing on.
Sensual musical about love and art has mature themes.
While Marshall's Nine may be a bit of cheeky fun, it features little worth recommending it over Fellini's [8 1/2]. It's not so much a 'cover song' as it is a 'dance remix'.
Nine is a searing, carthartic dissection of the creative process; as much as it celebrates the trappings accumulated by those who succeed, it is also an engrossing examination of the deeply-troubled mindset that gets them there.
While film allows limitless opportunities to 'open up' a work that originated on the legit stage, Marshall seems intent on making the material feel even more stagebound on the big screen.
Comes across as a very unimaginative re-working, a shallow interpretation.
Its Broadway brass tunes and mostly non-Italian cast makes Nine feel as Italian as a cold slice of Sbarro pizza.
[Director Robert] Marshall and screenwriters Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella can only muster a ridiculous American fantasy of Italian culture and la dolce vita.
An uneven arrangement of musical numbers surrounding a stage-to-screen adaptation that was a screen-to-stage adaptation in the first place.
Nine combines a dream cast with a dreamy script and score for a thoughtful and enjoyable musical about art, life and love.
Un musical desparejo, de gran despliegue visual, con algunos pasajes olvidables y otros muy bien logrados. Lo mejor es el elenco (en especial Daniel Day-Lewis y Marion Cotillard) y el recuerdo del maestro Federico Fellini, en quien se inspira.
Fellini is lucky that he didn't live long enough to see this.
Daniel Day-Lewis' miscasting throws the entire movie off kilter and one is left to contemplate the holes in the material.
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Nine doesn't remake Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 so much as it pillages the classic film for the purposes of Broadway vamping.
Audience Reviews for Nine
Super Reviewer
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- Guido Contini: ...What happened?
- Luisa Contini: You open your mouth and a lie comes out
- Guido Contini: What lie?
- Luisa Contini: Why am I surprised? It's like breathing to you!
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- Luisa Contini: You're just an appetite. And if you stop being greedy you die. You take everything. And I'm empty!
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- Lilli: Directing a movie is a very overrated job, we all know it. You just have to say yes or no. What else do you do? Nothing. "Maestro, should this be red?" Yes. "Green?" No. "More extras?" Yes. "More lipstick?" No. Yes. No. Yes. No. That's directing.
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NINE is a very intriguing film. It's a film that draws the viewer in to its realm of beauty and doesn't dare to let go until the very end. I've stated several times that I'm not very much a fan of musicals or their adaptations. I have several reasons that I won't try to waste time mentioning. But something about CHICAGO director Rob Marshall's unique filmmaking made this film an incredibly enjoyable, entirely watchable experience.
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