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9 Songs
  • Studio: Tartan
  • Release Date: Jul 22, 2005
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43 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 29 Critics What's this?

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5.5 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 25 Ratings

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  • Starring: Kieran O'Brien, Margo Stilley
  • 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 (familiar to anyone who's ever been in love) unfold in counterpoint to the nine live-concert songs of the story's title. (Tartan Films)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 29
  3. Negative: 9 out of 29
  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    70
    While 9 Songs is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its DIRECTNESS is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    Members of what used to be referred to euphemistically as the "raincoat crowd," will probably enjoy Winterbottom's experiment more than most.
  3. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    33
    A stultifying bore.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 4 out of 10
  1. Time
    8
    If you like porn you'll love this. This is full on sex. Even Skinamax has their limits.
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  2. LauraU.
    8
    The film is surprisingly bleak - it reflects so well the emptiness of a relationship where the partners are so intimately acquainted with each other's bodies but are not interested in getting to know each other as people. We are given a touching depiction of a barren relationship, and it is only a pity that so many critics failed to see that. If Winterbottom had decided to give us a picture of a rounded relationship, the film probably could not have examined the sexual aspects so deeply without being so long it was really tedious. And one has to ask whether Stilley would have been able to carry it off, whereas she was obviously capable of having sex with enthusiasm. I just wish I could still do it so well - or that I still looked as good!… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. BillK.
    1
    BORING. To address Laura's point, I think the critics DID understand that, but a good filmmaker would've done it better, and had a story to go with it. It's just tedious. There is no plot here. They go to the club, they have sex. Repeat over and over for 69 minutes. The sex scenes won't offend you, just put you to sleep. I gave it a 1 for the live music.… Expand
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