9 Songs

- 9 SONGS - _Film Only_ Released in 2004 and Directed and written by Michael Winterbottom, (24 hour Party People), '9 Songs' was a highly controversial film of its year. Dubbed as pornographic, 9 Songs Stars Kieran O'Brien (24 hour Party People) and Margo Stilley (Reverb). Genre Drama/Music. - "Possible the first pornographic 'date movie' that lacks the hardcore edge guys expect but does take mainstream ADULT movies to the next level" - USA The ...
...day love story intertwined between 9 songs taken from the 9 concerts they attended together.- What I liked about this film was its honesty. Naturally acted and unashamed, the two lovers Matt and Lisa are shown at all stages of their relationship. Their sexual experimentation, their drug taking, the disintegration of passion, all shone through in the natural quality of their acting. 9 Songs is a film that dares to be bold. Many consider this film ...

Morning_Becomes_Electra 22.03.2008 · Read full review
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...work colleague introduced me to 9 Songs. What's it about I asked? A lot of sex and 9 songs was the reply. Being as the person I had asked was a "STUDENT" I thought that maybe he was being a little bitchy, because he after all is the worst sort of student, a film student. What did throw me back a lot is that 9 songs is literally as the movie was described. A couple meet at a concert where we are subjected to a moment of live music, this is where ...
...pattern has been formed. 9 songs is no more or no less anything other than a wank-fest. it's a bit of medium level porn disguised as a story. Its apparently very art house, and very clever; if this is the case however my very existence is in fact wasted. The characters Matt (Kieran O'Brien) and Lisa (Margo Stilley) are not an attractive couple, she is described as being beautiful if this is the case every woman on every high street is a super model. ...

sghawken 10.02.2007 · Read full review
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...is that 8 or the 9 songs featured in the film are indie-rock songs, but they have chosen the one that doesn't fit this mould, Michael Nyman's "Debbie", to play over the menu selections, which just doesn't quite feel right. What promised to be more interesting were the interviews with the cast and the director. However, even these are slightly disappointing, as although the segments were clearly filmed with all of them having been asked questions, ...
...Director Michael Winterbottom focuses on the music and the technical side of things and maintains his stance that he was trying to give the audience more than sex. As with the trailer, having seen the film, this claim seems slightly laughable. The main actors also get their turn in the spot light. Keiran O'Brien gives the best of all the interviews as he's less serious and not afraid to talk about the sex in the movie. He's very laid back about ...

Soho_Black 13.08.2006 · Read full review
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Now I have decided that to save my reputation I need to first say that I didn’t pay to see this film, I was working for a film festival at the time a special preview of it was shown and saw it that way! Would I have seen it otherwise, maybe but I doubt I would have paid to see it! Nine Songs, possibly the most talked about film in the British press for a long, long time, outside of the film review pages anyway. It caused uproar back at the beginning ...
...18 certificate without any cuts, making it the first British made movie to show actual sex in it. A few French films had managed to get past the censors before this, but normally under the view that they were art films and therefore it was acceptable (Romance and Baise-moi). Having been branded by the tabloids ‘UK’s most explicit film ever’ does Nine Songs live up to this tag and more importantly is it any good? The central premise for the film ...

Ailran 23.03.2005 · Read full review
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...The film contains (bizarrely.) 9 songs. They are typically dire tracks, by mainstream indie-rock bands such as elbow, franz ferdinand etc. This, and the two arty looking bits take up approximately two thirds of the films 69 (tee hee hee!) minutes. The rest is graphic sex. We have it all here. We have masturbation, cunnilingus, fellatio, penetrative vaginal sex, and ....... drumroll please...... the first known scene of ejaculation to be passed on ...
...existant, it seems was 'classy' enough to get this through the sensors. Either that, or Winterbottom poked the poor guys eyes out before he got a chance to watch. Now that I mention it, its possible the lead male poked them out with his........ Anyway, the film encompasses the relationship that two young people had. Matt (Kieran 'big willy' O'Brian.), and Lisa (Margo 'bad actress, but good in the sack' Stilley.) go to lots of concerts, at which we ...

giksy21 22.06.2009 · Read full review
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...Dooyoo. Thanks! Michael Winterbottom’s 9 Songs is a sexual experience from near enough its first frame. The film’s premise is incredibly straightforward – Matt (Kieran O’Brien) and Lisa (Margo Stilley) meet at a concert, and 9 Songs is essentially an expression of their love story, which just so happens to rather loosely revolve around music. From the outset, we must consider where the line between glamourised pornography and artistic sexual expression ...
...viewers among us. Initially, 9 Songs appears to follow the format of a presentation of seemingly sage information about Matt’s expedition to Antarctica, followed by a scene of intense intimacy, followed again by a musical interlude. Given the repetition and questionable narrative structure of the film, one can understand the criticism leveled against it almost immediately. The film at points appears to settle down, yet just as an interesting or ...

asdasta632 28.08.2009 · Read full review
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...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 ...
...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 ...

barefoot777 25.05.2005 · Read full review
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9 Songs- an arty film that I looked at in blockbuster a few times before finally, having exhausted the horror selection and run out of Van-damme, decided to give it a watch. Starring: Kieran O'Brien and Margot Stilley Director: Michael Winterbottom Certificate: 18 Release date: June 27, 2005 Run time: 69 mins THE STORY: After meeting at a concert, 2 people meet for intense sexual encounters. There isnt more to it than that really. The music ...
...and became more of a 'spot the band' than anything else. the sex in this film is very graphic and is constant throughout the film, from start to finish. A very erotic. sensual film that if watched with the right person will definatley get you in the mood ( a bit of a problem if you caught this in the cinema!) Apart from that, this film has very little story that I could make out, 1 minute you are rocking to a great band, live on stage, the next ...

wompie99 29.07.2005 · Read full review
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