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9 Songs Reviews

2004

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Within the audience of a rock concert at Brixton Academy, American student Lisa meets Matt, and so begins their highly charged, passionate relationship... Contains explicit scenes of a sexual nature. Read more

Starring	Kieran O'Brien, Margot Stilley
Director	Michael Winterbottom
Genres	Drama

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- Michael Winterbottom may have made the most sexually explicit film ever to receive a mainstream UK release, but it's also a touchingly emotional portrait of an all-too-brief romance with an achingly hip soundtrack. read more »
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  A study in human relationships
  
  What better way to monitor the relationship between two people than through their sex life? This film does exactly that, watching the different ways the couple... read more »
  
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  - Sarah Thomson
  - Glasgow, Scotland
  - 30 Mar 2005 at 12:49
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  Great Sex and Music - Guaranteed No Drama
  
  This film is like the edited highlights of life in your early 20s. I can't understand those who criticise it for the sex. It is a film famous for having ... read more »
  
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- - Lasker
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  - Banstead
  - 11 Feb 2012 at 22:17
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  9 songs
  
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  turned the film off after 20 minutes, cant believe i rented it, i was expecting something alot better quality how wrong was i ...
  
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- - kingbazbell
  - 4 reviews
  - 07 Dec 2011 at 16:37
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  An honest movie about a short lustful relationship
  
  There's a lot of sex, and its not movie Hollywood sex, so once you get over that, its an honestly shot movie about a lustful relationship over the duration ... read more »
  
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  - 18 Nov 2011 at 21:21
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  - 2
  SELFLESS YOUTH
  
  An interesting film about sexual relations in the West between young Whites.
  
  The lack of a convincing dramatic context on which to hang the structure... read more »
  
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  - 05 Nov 2011 at 10:23
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  Really, really painful.
  
  Terrible acting, terrible script. Loathsome characters and some of the worst sex I've ever seen in a film. I had the misfortune to actually see this in the ... read more »
  
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- - Volundir
  - 4 reviews
  - London
  - 23 Oct 2011 at 01:03
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  Unimpressed, unimpressed and unimpressed
  
  No plot and gratuitous sex scenes- don't believe a word said about it, this is a porn film. The explicit scenes add nothing to the film whatsoever and are ... read more »
  
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- - MarsSkirata
  - 9 reviews
  - Glasgow
  - 24 Aug 2011 at 16:52
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  Dull. Boring. Uninspiring.
  
  Very disappointing. This movie could have been so much more! The biggest flaw from me is a failure in the casting. There was just no chemistry between the two ... read more »
  
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- - ShellBunny
  - 11 reviews
  - 13 Jul 2011 at 13:28
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  Slightly strange jarring film.
  
  think any less than 2 stars would be a little cruel. The steaminess of some of the scenes I think, jars badly though with the coldness of the rest of the film. ... read more »
  
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  - 26 Jun 2011 at 23:31
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  Repetitive, yet it could have been so much more.
  
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  I have a lot of respect for Michael Winterbottom as an auteur be it his fictional analysis of intimate proportions between Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in The ... read more »
  
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  - 18 Apr 2011 at 18:32
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  Spread your love like a fever.......
  
  So I'm not really sure what this film is trying to do in all honesty after watching it! Its certainly brave, and special credit to the actors, who in the ... read more »
  
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- - Karen931
  - 212 reviews
  - Edinburgh
  - 15 Mar 2011 at 19:54
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- - 117
  - 38
  A study in human relationships
  
  What better way to monitor the relationship between two people than through their sex life? This film does exactly that, watching the different ways the couple... read more »
  
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- 86372
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Sarah Thomson
  - Glasgow, Scotland
  - 30 Mar 2005 at 12:49
- - 61
  - 21
  A realistic romance.
  
  I didn't know what to expect before I saw this film, other then some live music and lots of sex. And yes, thats what you do see. But there is more to it ... read more »
  
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- - Webdude75
  - East Yorkshire
  - 22 Mar 2005 at 12:20
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  adolescent masturbation fantasy
  
  If, when I was 13, I'd described my ultimate w**k fantasy, it might well have gone: have lots of meaningless sex with an exotic foreigner, watch some really... read more »
  
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- - Tom Dowler
  - London, England
  - 08 Jun 2005 at 12:27
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  Unwatchable, unbearable
  
  When 9 songs came out there was a considerable amount of media coverage, because of the explicit sex scenes it contains. I read numerous articles and interviews... read more »
  
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- - Ropot
  - London
  - 02 Jun 2006 at 18:19
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  What's all the fuss about?
  
  'The most sexually explicit film in the history of British cinema'... 'Stunning' two of the reviews about this film. I just can't say the ... read more »
  
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  - North London
  - 01 Jul 2005 at 14:11
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  This is a truly awful film
  
  This is a truly awful film. Tt seems its ownly selling point is that it is marketed on the fact it the most sexually explicit mainstream film. However, the ... read more »
  
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- - whereartnow
  - East Sussex
  - 18 Sep 2005 at 18:13
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  - 2
  abcde
  
  In the midst of life we are eating pilchards. Unto thee and, indeed, thine, will come thy thermos. How fracken'd and brail were the hapsons then, Mildred. ... read more »
  
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  - stockport
  - 25 Sep 2005 at 04:46
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  9 Dongs
  
  Not enough sex in it for my liking. A film for all the family
  
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  - Brighton, Bright spark
  - 07 Feb 2006 at 11:11
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  Music to my Eyes
  
  The big question on everyone’s lips after leaving this film was "has cinema finally gone porno?" The answer to that question is a resounding no. ... read more »
  
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- - Trukuballen
  - 9 reviews
  - Edinburgh
  - 07 Jun 2005 at 19:40
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  One for the Vicar!
  
  Recepie for a great night in. Get your mum, dad and nan round for tea. Then invite the vicar over for some stimulating conversation. Put this movie on and ... read more »
  
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  - Jazz
  - 13 Dec 2005 at 15:30

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Critics' reviews
- Michael Winterbottom may have made the most sexually explicit film ever to receive a mainstream UK release, but it's also a touchingly emotional portrait of an all-too-brief romance with an achingly hip soundtrack. read more »
- LOVEFiLM Review
  - Tom Charity
  - LOVEFiLM
- It is hard to decide which is the most anaphrodisiac, the music or the copulation; both are repetitive to the point of monotony.
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:44
- The most sexually explicit film in the history of British cinema
- 23657
- - The Guardian
  - 29 Jan 2006 at 16:11
- Fearless, beautiful and moving...
- 23655
- - GQ
  - 29 Jan 2006 at 16:11
- Bold, exciting, erotic
- 23658
- - Time Out
  - 29 Jan 2006 at 16:11
- Breathtaking
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- - Independent On Sunday
  - 29 Jan 2006 at 16:11

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  Within the audience of a rock concert at Brixton Academy, American student Lisa meets Matt, and so begins their highly charged, passionate relationship... Contains explicit scenes of a sexual nature....