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| 9 songs - Unrated Full Uncut Version | 
 enlarge | Director: Michael Winterbottom
Actors: Kieran O'brien, Margo Stilley, Huw Bunford, Cian Ciaran, The Dandy Warhols
Studio: Tartan Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  91 reviews
Sales Rank: 991
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 71
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: GEPDTVD2007D
UPC: 842498020074
EAN: 0842498020074
ASIN: B000BGH29K
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: November 22, 2005
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Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 06/27/2006
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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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 Sex as Storytelling March 13, 2006
124 out of 147 found this review helpful
9 Songs tells a familiar story, but the way the story is told is innovative, poignant, and memorable. We found ourselves still talking about the movie hours later.
The sex which comprises the movie is explicit, but it is neither Holywood sex nor "porn movie" sex. The couple's physical relationship is real and honest, and tells the story of the movie. I was impressed with the idea of using sex as the primary narrative device, and the director's implementation of the idea is brilliantly executed. 9 songs tells its story well in a language most of us can understand.
A 00's LOVE STORY February 23, 2006
81 out of 106 found this review helpful
This whole movie is a memory of an affair. Matt working as glaciologist in North Pole remembers every single moment he passed with his girlfriend Lisa. They meet in a music hall in London during a concert. The mutual affection is critical and they going to spend several months together. As they experience strong sexual moments together they will experience also nine live concerts. Unique performances by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Von Bondies, Elbow, Primal Scream, The Dandy Warhols, Super Furry Animals, Franz Ferdinand and Michael Nyman are available in this very good movie.
Even some scenes are a bit shocking I believe this a worthy to see film.
To some, prurient, to some, nostalgic, but more than that... June 27, 2006
78 out of 88 found this review helpful
Some might consider this movie prurient, while to others it will seem sweetly nostalgic. Anyone who is looking at this review will already know that 9 Songs is famed for its full-on sex scenes. Some, however, will not be aware that it really is about the nature of memory and the waking-up to ordinary life's intangible fleeting beauty.
The main character is a British glaciologist through whose eyes, metaphorically, one "remembers" a relationship a lovely, egotistical, careless, charming, and crazy woman, not unlike the young women young men meet from time to time and with whom men try (unsuccessfully) to have a temporally enduring relationship.
Matt (Kieran O'Brien) is an ugly-handsome winsome working-class bloke made good in Tony Blair's New Britain. Lisa (Margot Stilley)is an American, obviously from what is called a "good family", curvaceously slim, statuesque (about two inches taller than Matt), educated, and unserious about both her relationship with Matt and her job. As for her "job", though we don't see much of it at all, it's obviously just a time-marking "playing about with typewriters and latchkeys and calling it work", as EM Forster called the occupations of upper middle class twenty-somethings who receive regular checks from the family back home. She a good-looking 21 year old American woman in London with time on her hands, and a liking for men.
Glaciology is a key thematic element in 9 Songs. Antarctica is a metaphor for one's memory. The snow laid down in the center of the continent becomes ice, trapping bubbles of air inside it. Those bubbles are the continent's "memory" of the weather on a certain day, a certain year. As more and more ice is laid down at the center, the earlier deposits move inecluctably toward the sea, there to be "calved" become bergs, and finally melt, leaving no trace behind.
Apart from Antarctica, there's not a lot more than performances by bands like the Dandy Warhols, Super Furry Animals, and so forth. Nine songs sung in really fun-looking London venues, to be exact, and, of course, the famous scenes of the couple making love. The lovemaking is more inferred than depicted ofttimes, but taken as a whole one would doubt that there is even a square centimetre of the protagonists' anatomies that is not unmistakably displayed in all its glory for all the world to see in this movie. The sex, for the most part, has a quality of warmly relational authenticity that anyone could recognize as very distinct from exploitative porn. As a result, the viewer seldom feels terribly voyeuristic, but rather the director seeks for the viewer to experience a reflective nostalgia, redolent of times past - which is, of course, a function of memory.
HOWEVER, the title of the film does not, I think, refer merely to the "songs" sung by the bands. My own theory is that the auteur, Michael Winterbottom, is alluding to the Chinese 13th century Yuan Dynasty cycle of poems, The Nine Songs, which is in many respects about the Shamanic quest. "Similar to the traditional shaman of Siberia, Central Asia and the Arctic, the wu enters into a trance state in performing ceremonies. However, unlike his northern counterparts, the Chinese shaman enters into a fleeting love relationship with the God (or Goddess)." [taken from Zekeriyah's excellent review of the book of the same name on this site]
You see, this film is not only about memory, and what a guy remembers about a relationship with a woman he has loved (which guys being who they are, is mostly the perceived high points, like going to shows and making love), but 9 Songs also seems to be an extended metaphor for the Shamanic quest, which in the end requires union with the mysterious Beloved other, the mythological dakini, who both enlivens and kills her lover simultaneously and then simply disappears into the sky, and leaves behind (there's that word, memory, again) as her gift a precious, elusive realization of the ugly-beautiful reality of things-as-they-are.
With that in mind, see this movie. It's not really about sex.
Great performances all around! September 30, 2005
31 out of 36 found this review helpful
Starting off with British guy Matt in Antartica, surveying the land, the movie is a flashback to his fling with an American girl named Lisa (Margo Stilley, who looks like a taller, learner Maggie Gyllenhaal). The two go to a great concert, have sex, go to a great concert, have sex, rinse, repeat 7 more times. Amazingly, even though you're only seeing the sex, you're seeing the reality of a relationship and able to see the emotions and feelings of both people from beginning to end. It's an interesting note to all those movies out there who try to show everything BUT the sex...maybe you're missing the real point.
Of course what really makes the movie a must-watch is the performances. One of a kind concert footage from some of my personal favorite bands, Franz Ferdinand, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Von Bondies, Super Furry Animals and Primal Scream. If you're a fan of these bands, its like getting a bonus DVD of footage.
Be warned, the sex is real. No faking, no CGI. But it doesn't really feel like porn, least not to me. Winterbottom shots it the film on digital video, probably the best way to capture all the concerts. The film's a solid 65 minutes, just the perfect amount of time to course the relationship of two people in lust.
 Metronomic October 28, 2005
25 out of 35 found this review helpful
This is a movie for the sexually liberated, media-articulate contemporary individual who doesn't baulk at the sight of sex. The relationship of the film's two protagonists is portrayed in austere and non-manipulative terms. It does not insult an intelligent youthful modern audience: the sex scenes are candid and very real, and we don't get heaps of sharp dialogue from two people pontificating over the nature of sex and relationships. This film simply shows the intense but ephemeral bond of two people united by physical attraction.
At least that's what I would have said if this film was any good. In fact I find it utterly insulting that anyone would think that I want to watch two bland characters going to concerts then having sex. That's it, that's the whole film! Wow, I'm blown away by its starkness and simplicity! No I'm not; I'm incredibly bored and a little bit angry. Oh look they're having sex again and it's quite graphic - how interesting and refreshing in its honesty. No, not really - unless perhaps you're a young dandy pretending to be intelligent and who hasn't come to terms with the brute facts of existence. Oh look, the two dullards have been to another gig and now they're having sex - again! Please, please stop! Can't we watch them playing Monopoly for a change?
Traditionally, objectors to this sort of film airily claim that it is boring. This is the acceptable unshockable-sophisticate alternative to condemnation on moral grounds. Well, this film was both immoral and boring: I object to this film on the grounds that it is morally wrong to produce such a boring film: it was made by people who have horribly confused interesting and clever with boring and erm, boring. The only way this film could have been better was if it was called '2 Songs' and its content and structure were amended accordingly. For a far more enjoyable and insightful film on relationships try 'One Fine Day'.
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