9 Songs

2004

Action / Drama / Music / Romance

69
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 32% · 95 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 32% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 25265 25.3K

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Plot summary

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 inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.

Director

Michael Winterbottom Photo
Michael Winterbottom

Top cast

Kieran O'Brien Photo
Kieran O'Brien as Matt
Michael Nyman Photo
Michael Nyman as Himself
Margo Stilley Photo
Margo Stilley as Lisa
Guy Garvey Photo
Guy Garvey as Himself - Elbow
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518.86 MB
1280*688
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 11 min
Seeds 23
1.07 GB
1904*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 11 min
Seeds 50

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cgearheart 6 / 10

Hard to categorize

Reviewed by Philby-3 5 / 10

Deep meaningless sex

This film is yet another example of Michael Winterbottom's versatility. One peculiar aspect of it is that the scenes of lovemaking are divided by songs (hence the title). The film is only a little over 60 minutes so we get 30 minutes of music and 30 minutes of sex. It's fairly gentle, loving sex, with a short foray into mild bondage at the end, but it is indisputably real sex. There is a rather wistful atmosphere because with the opening scenes of a light plane flying low over the Antarctic wastes it is clear that Matt (Kieran O'Brien) is reflecting on the past, on his short affair with Lisa, a younger American woman in London. Matt is a glaciologist who spends his time uncovering the secrets of the earth's past. Lisa's background is not sketched in. In fact we learn little about her except that she does rather like sex and doesn't have to fall hopelessly in love with someone to enjoy their body. Matt is left only with a few warm memories.The 9 songs are mostly noisy rock numbers from bands playing in the cavernous Brixton Academy, though there is at least one decent Michael Nyman number. It seems Matt and Lisa both like the stuff (they first meet there) and the songs kind of punctuate the relationship, but again, there is not a great deal of meaning.Matt is played by Kieran O'Brien, previously seen as Fitz's difficult teenage son in "Cracker", and he certainly meets the physical demands his role requires. Margo Stilley as Lisa plays her in an uncomplicated fashion. I thought they were both pretty brave to do this and I hope it doesn't hurt their careers. It was something of an achievement to get this film past the censors but it clearly falls into the "Art" rather than "Pornography" category. I do wonder though, as I did with "Shortbus," what's coming next. I don't think, even in adult love stories I want to see all the anatomical detail. I'd much rather have some crackling dialogue or even just some nice scenery.
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