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9 Songs

Drama. Musical. Romance One summer, two people, eight music groups, nine songs... An erotic drama with music. London, autumn 2003. Lisa is an American student in London. Matt meets her at a Black Rebel Motorcycle Concert at the Brixton Academy and falls in love with her. The film follows their relationship and the concerts they attend together (The Von Bondies, Elbow, Primal Scream, The Dandy Warhols, Super Furry Animals, Franz Ferdinand, Michael Nyman). ... [+]
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United States
Chicago Tribune
"Ingenious with his use of music and hypnotic pacing, Winterbottom keeps us in his world as usual. But this time that world feels ever more gratuitous, meandering and puzzling"
United States
Variety
"A touching, often poetic, sometimes achingly real snapshot of a brief encounter"
United States
The New York Times
"'9 Songs', for all its failed ambitions and its tinge of sexism, is lovely to watch" 
United States
Boston Globe
"It's a smart, provocative idea for a movie. I wish '9 Songs' was that movie" 
United States
Salon
"While 9 Songs is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its DIRECTNESS is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it" 
United States
Chicago Sun-Times
"As an idea, the film is fascinating, but as an experience it grows tedious;"
United States
Chicago Reader
"For a movie that consists almost entirely of real sex and real rock 'n' roll, 9 Songs feels remarkably conventional."
United States
Entertainment Weekly
"A naughty peep show for sobersides, disguised as a nature documentary"
United States
Los Angeles Times
"A surprisingly baffling and opaque film, too artistic to be standard pornography and too zealously focused on being graphic to the exclusion of all else to succeed as drama"
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