9 Songs
| 9 Songs | |
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| Directed by | Michael Winterbottom |
| Written by | Michael Winterbottom |
| Produced by |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Marcel Zyskind |
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Production company | Revolution Films |
| Distributed by | Optimum Releasing |
Release date |
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Running time | 70 minutes[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Budget | £1 million |
| Box office | $1.6 million[2] |
9 Songs is a 2004 British art romantic drama movie written and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The movie stars Kieran O'Brien and Margo Stilley.
The movie was controversial when it was released because of its sexual content. There were scenes in the movie that included actual footage of the two leads, Kieran O'Brien and Margo Stilley, having sexual intercourse and performing oral sex as well as a scene of ejaculation.[3][4]
Cast
[change | change source]- Kieran O'Brien as Matt
- Margo Stilley as Lisa
Plot
[change | change source]The movie is about a British young man Matt and an American exchange student Lisa falling in love after meeting at a Black Rebel Motorcycle Club concert. Throughout the movie, Matt narrates the relationship from the future, where he is a climatologist in Antarctica. The movie is mainly about Matt and Lisa's relationship and sexual journey together told by nine different songs.
The nine songs
[change | change source]- "Whatever Happened to My Rock and Roll", Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- "C'mon, C'mon", The Von Bondies
- "Fallen Angel", Elbow
- "Movin' on Up", Primal Scream
- "You Were the Last High", The Dandy Warhols
- "Slow Life", Super Furry Animals
- "Jacqueline", Franz Ferdinand
- "Debbie", Michael Nyman
- "Love Burns", Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Release
[change | change source]The movie was showed at the Cannes Film Festival. 9 Songs holds a score of 24% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 97 reviews with an average rating of 4.38/10.[5] The movie overall had negative reviews.[6]
Because of the intense sexual scenes of the movie, the release of it caused a debate over whether the scenes of explicit sex artistically were part of the movie's meaning or crossed the border into pornography. In the United Kingdom, the movie received an 18 certificate from the British Board of Film Classification and became the most explicit mainstream movie to be so rated in the country. MP Ann Widdecombe complained about the movie in the UK House of Commons and calling on the Home Secretary to reverse the decision to release it uncensored.[7]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "9 Songs (18)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
- ↑ 9 Songs at Box Office Mojo
- ↑ What Culture#3 Archived 20 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine: 9 Songs
- ↑ "Margo Stilley: songs of innocence and of experience". The Daily Telegraph. 2 November 2008. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
- ↑ 9 Songs at Rotten Tomatoes
- ↑ "9 Songs Reviews". www.metacritic.com. Retrieved 2025-02-03.
- ↑ Hasting, Chris (2007-10-24). "'This will open the floodgates to hardcore porn'". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
