9 Songs
2004 Directed by Michael Winterbottom
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Michael Winterbottoms 9 Songs is a story of a young pair Matt and Lisa who’s relationship is stretched out through nine concerts from popular British Indie Bands.
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There is one thing worse than really bad porn.
And that's pretentious porn.
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The dvd cover of this movie states that 9 Songs is, "The most sexually explicit film in the history of British cinema". Hard to disagree with that statement, this film is very graphic for a supposed mainstream release with various unsimulated sex scenes and a host of other pervy action.
Dirk said in his review that this was "pretentious porn" and he was right. We have one sex scene after another followed by some drug taking and an "indie" band performing a song very few people have heard of. With the exception of Primal Scream's "Moving On Up",I must say I wasn't familiar with any of these tracks.
Every now and again you see a review or a dvd that… -
This Porn was rubbish. Just as it was getting going it was interrupted by some crap indie songs, and apparently it's frowned upon to pleasure ones self at the cinema!?
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Song #1 Whatever Happened To My Rock and Roll by The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
Garage rock classic from the band's debut album B.R.M.C. I remember this song from my watching MTV2 days. Love the chorus of "I fell in love with the sweet sensation,I gave my heart to a simple chord,I gave my soul to a new religion, Whatever happened to you ?"
Song #2 C'mon C'mon by The Von Bondies
The only song I know by this American band. They sound like Aussie rockers The Vines to me but this was a good performance of a fine song.
Song #3 Fallen Angel by Elbow
Quite like a bit of Elbow but this performance of an early album track…
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“Dear Penthouse Forum: I never believed your letters were true, until I had an experience that changed my mind. I’m a British Antarctic researcher named Matt (Kieran O’Brien), considered good-looking by my friends. One day I met a hot American named Lisa (Margo Stilley), and I could tell she’d be into everything! By night, we’d go to concerts by hipster in-bands like Von Bondies and Franz Ferdinand; by later-that-night, we’d do drugs and have graphic sex. Oral, bondage, full-on money shots—you name it! We even got director Michael Winterbottom to shoot us on grainy video. I never got to know a thing about Lisa, but that’s okay, because I don’t know anything about myself, either! I can just reflect metaphorically on the experience while flying over polar ice, and maybe try to convince myself that there was a point to it besides a pretentious experiment in high-concept art porn.”
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This film essentially made my entire class at Uni really uncomfortable. Like when you watch porn as a group of friends, because that is what it was.
I couldn't really say exactly what it was about, clearly about a relationship, a couple that meets at a gig, and have sex a lot.
This film is very graphic, like super graphic sex scenes. But although it wasn't to my taste, the scenes during the gigs were good, really well shot. But then its down to more very intimate sex.
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Great concert footage....but I'm not sure what it had to do with all of the hardcore sex.
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This film is a porno, no question. yes it's well shot music is good, well acted, everything you dont expect in a porno, but its a hard core porno.
and the really funny thing is the main guy is from my home town.
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The dvd cover of this movie states that 9 Songs is, "The most sexually explicit film in the history of British cinema". Hard to disagree with that statement, this film is very graphic for a supposed mainstream release with various unsimulated sex scenes and a host of other pervy action.
Dirk said in his review that this was "pretentious porn" and he was right. We have one sex scene after another followed by some drug taking and an "indie" band performing a song very few people have heard of. With the exception of Primal Scream's "Moving On Up",I must say I wasn't familiar with any of these tracks.
Every now and again you see a review or a dvd that… -
Matt is in Antarctic on account of his job. While he is there he remember the relationship he left. The rest of the movie is made up of flash backs on his relationship with Lisa. All the flash backs contain when Matt and Lisa are at the concerts they attend; 9 concerts in all, and when they are having sex.
What is annoying and so interesting about 9 songs is that there is no story line. As the movie is a splice of flash backs, though they run chronologically, they don't make a story line; so the movie doesn't really go anywhere and you don't learn anything about them. But this is whats so interesting about it. If you keep…
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Showing actual sex while making us care about the protagonists was always going to be (ahem) hard to pull off. To find great actors with chemistry willing to take part isn't easy, as evidenced here. A more interesting story would have helped, but then again the actors don't have the skill to make what's already there work.
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Pariskunta harrastaa rock -konserteissa käymistä ja panemista. Ensimmäistä vähemmän, toista reilusti enemmän.
Juoni puuttuu, mutta annetaan pisteet rohkeudesta. Kaikki näytetään, lähikuvissa.
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Song #1 Whatever Happened To My Rock and Roll by The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
Garage rock classic from the band's debut album B.R.M.C. I remember this song from my watching MTV2 days. Love the chorus of "I fell in love with the sweet sensation,I gave my heart to a simple chord,I gave my soul to a new religion, Whatever happened to you ?"
Song #2 C'mon C'mon by The Von Bondies
The only song I know by this American band. They sound like Aussie rockers The Vines to me but this was a good performance of a fine song.
Song #3 Fallen Angel by Elbow
Quite like a bit of Elbow but this performance of an early album track…
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This film essentially made my entire class at Uni really uncomfortable. Like when you watch porn as a group of friends, because that is what it was.
I couldn't really say exactly what it was about, clearly about a relationship, a couple that meets at a gig, and have sex a lot.
This film is very graphic, like super graphic sex scenes. But although it wasn't to my taste, the scenes during the gigs were good, really well shot. But then its down to more very intimate sex. -
Okay, I'm not sure if there was really any plot. It really is a live song, followed by an explicit sexual act. These two actors do every thing for real on screen, and see a lot of live bands. I guess the music sounds good and give them props for the stones they had to bang on camera. But seriously, no plot.