9 songs - Unrated Full Uncut Version
by Michael Winterbottom
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Actor: Cian Ciaran, Huw Bunford, Kieran O'Brien, Margo Stilley, The Dandy WarholsDirector: Michael Winterbottom
Cinematographer: Marcel Zyskind
Editor: Michael Winterbottom
Producer: Michael Winterbottom
Writer: Michael Winterbottom
Editor: Mat Whitecross
Producer: Andrew Eaton
Producer: Melissa Parmenter
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 71 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tartan Video
DVD Reviews of 9 songs - Unrated Full Uncut Version
DVD Review: This movie is not worth the hype--Seriously. But, the sex was hot :)
Summary: 3 Stars
I have been waiting and waiting to watch this movie and I finally did this past week--I was so dissapointed! First, there was absolutely NO story line--just lots of hot graphic sex (I'm not complaining about that) and the 2 main characters hanging out at random concerts. Second, the female lead (Lisa) was so immature and rude towards the male lead (Matt)--at one point in the movie, Lisa stays at a strip club and gets a lap dance from a female stripper while Matt leaves and goes home alone. At another point in the movie, Lisa goes off and masturbates with her vibrator while poor Matt is in the kitchen cooking her dinner--he walks in and watches her for a bit and then leaves and goes back to cooking dinner. Ladies, I can't imagine treating your boyfriend like that--I know that I don't. Lisa was just so IMMATURE and stupid. She also blows off Matt on Thanksgiving to go hang with her friends--he offered to make her dinner, etc. Her character just really irked me. They should have really found someone more compatible with Matt.
As for the sex in the movie--If you want to watch real/raw sex, watch this movie--the actors were not acting--it was 100% real (everything but anal). Don't believe me--watch it yourself. The sex was very hot and erotic. I can't complain about the sex in this movie--It was hot. But there was still no story--just Matt and Lisa attending concerts, snorting coke and smoking cigarettes--then lots of sex. I just really wish they had given us more of a store line.
At the end of the movie, Matt goes to Antartica and Lisa goes back to the USA. I think she was only in England studying for a semester abroad.
I gave this 3 out 5 stars only because of the sex being so hot. If you like porn and sex, I still recommend that you watch it.
DVD Review: Sex, drugs and rock'nroll
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie has all three. Personally, I could do without the rock'n'roll and the drugs don't do much for me, but the sex scenes are the best I can remember seeing. They involve two people whom I would probably like if I knew them, they don't go in for arrogant or slutty behaviour and their lovemaking is not impossibly prolonged or athletic. And of course, it's not simulated. It may seem odd to praise a film entirely on the sex it contains but, given the paucity of similar erotica elsewhere, I find this one outstanding. I suppose one could rip the disc and edit out the concerts, though that would further dilute the sketchy story line that exists in the uncut version.DVD Review: A movie about reality
Summary: 4 Stars
The movie honestly and realistically shows a typical short "life" of two single people who are having a sexual, lusty affair. In this type of situation, one of the people might feel more or want more (the guy in this case) while the other person is happy to keep it on the purely fun & sexual realm (the girl). I'm sure most adults can relate to such a situation. Not much more really although some reviewers may pull at straws to find some hidden esoteric meaning, but it's very well done and worth the watch. DVD Review: Who Knew Sex Was So Dreary And Boring?
Summary: 1 Stars
If Michael Winterbottom's 9 SONGS sounds interesting, trust me, it isn't.
There are apparently two selling points for this film. The secondary one is that it has "exclusive" live performances of nine songs by various artists including The Von Bondies and The Dandy Warhols. These performances, however, are shot with artless camera work and bad sound, and are worse than many amateur bootleg concert videos you can find on YouTube.
The primary selling point is that in this movie, the actors playing the young couple in love actually have sex. And it's shown in graphic detail. Quite graphic at times. Which means, I suppose, that it's a porn flick, in spite of its indie pretensions at examining the fluctuations of a romantic/sexual relationship, but it's a curiously passionless and unstimulating variety of porn at best.
Winterbottom's characters are unlikeable, which is allowable, but also uninteresting, which isn't. Watching them relate, in all ways, makes human relationships actually look off-putting.
There is little story here, and what there is is bookended around the song videos. It's as if the writer/director had so little story he decided to use the songs as filler material. The result, at 71 minutes, is one of the subjectively longest damn movies I've ever seen.
Every few minutes I clicked up the onscreen display to see how much time was left. It always seemed far too much, even at only three or so minutes remaining. At one point, I realized I'd actually picked up a book and started reading without thinking about it. That has never happened to me during any movie before. It was like my brain was seeking to bandage a wound in its stimulation.
Consider yourself warned. 9 Songs, in spite of its dull sexuality (I started to write carnality, but there's nothing truly carnal about it), is a complete bore. Watching a toaster will probably arouse you more.
I feel like my head's been wrapped in plaster. Time to go find something to awaken my senses again, because I think they gave up on me while watching this thing.
DVD Review: better than average
Summary: 4 Stars
9 songs was better than average for a film of it's nature. The actors seemed to enjoy each other and were well cast for the role. It's nice to see a movie that blends the sexual aspect with a bit of a plot. Nudity for both him and her. The scene near the end of the film showing her pleasing him orally could have been done better. This scene has great potential but was very disappointing due to poor lighting and parts of it were shot very far away. Overall not a bad film and I would like to see more like this one. It didn't make 5 stars due to very poor lighting and no closeups when they needed to provide them.
Description of 9 songs - Unrated Full Uncut Version
Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs. Featuring nine live concert performances not available anywhere else by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Von Bondies, Elbow, Primal Scream, The Dandy Warhols, Super Furry Animals, Franz Ferdinand and Michael Nyman.Maverick director Michael Winterbottom wondered about the double standard of why novels can have explicit sex scenes and be legit and films could not. So his short film of a relationship based solely on sex and a love for music is the result of that thought. If the definition of a porn film is to shoot actors performing graphic sex scenes for real, then 9 Songs qualifies. It certainly doesn't feel or look like your standard whoopdee-do XXX feature. It's as glossy and low-budget arty as Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People or I Want You. But yeah, Matt and Lisa do everything to each other, and the actors are not "just acting" in some of the sex scenes. No matter how landmark the movie might be, there is not much story here (at least a book with hot sex often has a good story to it). Lisa is an American drifter in London who hooks up with Matt, a scientist who studies glaciers in Antarctica. They have sex and visit nine rock concerts including Franz Ferdinand and The Dandy Warhols. As advertised, you can't find these musical performances anywhere else, but we just see them from way back in the crowd. The film has an essence of how someone can find bliss in another person's body, and the emotional, magical weight that can hold over you. But that spell doesn't last. Since the sex is real, Winterbottom had to cast unknown actors, and they really don't make an impression, especially with the lack of story. --Doug Thomas
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