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With only 42, Michael Winterbottom is the winner of many prestigious awards, including BAFTA Award. Having made 10 films in years, Winterbottom is a director, which people, especially distributors, find hard to place. As time goes by, you never know what he's going to make, because he doesn't do the same kind of movies all the time. If we decide to classify his work, as mainstream, offering audiences easy way out, than this film "9 songs" is a "a queen of that". Usually in his films, he discuss' subjects different, but this time...au no, not this time…
Who is Winterbottom than? Fellow with a sneaky smile and a boyish, playful manner? 'I don't like films where you feel you're being forced into emotion - where you have a sentimental scene and the score swells up underneath it in case you haven't got the point. I like films where if I go with someone they might feel one thing and I might feel another. Some people thought Wonderland was warm and optimistic, others that it was pessimistic. That might reflect their own experiences; it certainly reflects the complexity of real life.'
Winterbottom is used to people finding his films a bit bewilder and paradoxical. Maybe this is a real message of the film "9 songs"? He doesn't wants to force us into a cheap sentimental scene because different people react different on love scenes. If for "Wonderland" some people felt optimistic and some pessimistic, how than people react on " 9 songs"? I'm asking you this, simply because some love scenes here, weren't about love at all [well maybe you know], but pretty pornographic. Either way, I congratulate Winterbottom, this is certainly a brave move. This is er intriguing idea! To picture a strong erotic moments, that are clearly very much in the eyes [and maybe other parts] of the beholder. instead of the usual brief simulated sex scenes, followed by discrete fade-outs. And clearly, is a contemporary love story today just sex? They might be sexually dynamic; because they hanging over the edge of drug addiction, taking lines of cocaine before and after lovemaking. And only from the narration we find out that he's a glaciologist. Maybe that is a right metaphor for the graphic sex in the film? Or it is just a welcome break from all that increasingly tedious sex?
"9 songs" is story of a short romance between London rock band member and an American student. The scenes rotate among rock concert scenes, scenes about Antarctica and very explicit sex scenes. Matt and Lisa, the two music-loving lovers, perform realistically enough in and out of their bed. Meeting and mutual seduction is entirely left out of the movie; we don't get to know much about them. What would happen if actual directors with real talent direct enact sex? In between sex they attend rock concerts, displaying maybe hidden message: What lies in between British glam pop rock stars? Just sex, simple as that! Maybe that's why the characters are fairly flat and not well developed? Gee was that on purpose I wandering? One thing is pretty certain; Michael Winterbottom certainly can do better than this sex madness!
This is not film for teenagers or children and if you are going to rent it, it might be R rated as well. You can order it via Internet.
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Music / Performing Arts, Comedy - Director: Trevor Nunn, Geoffrey Posner - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, Parental Guidance - Starring: Duncan Preston, Celia Imrie, Julie Walters, Victoria Wood, Jim Broadbent
A true landmark in British mainstream cinema, 9 Songs is arguably the most sexually ... more
explicit film to be awarded an 18 certificate by the BBFC.Directed by the award-winning Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, In This World, Wonderland), the film...
A true landmark in British mainstream cinema, 9 Songs is arguably the most sexually ... more
explicit film to be awarded an 18 certificate by the BBFC. Directed by the award-winning Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, In This World, Wonderland) , the fi...
May 25th, 2005
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