Lisa (Margo Stilley) is a student in London and Mike (Kieran O'Brien) is her boyfriend. The couple engage in sex, they see live music and occasionally indulge in coke. There’s your storyline. The real story is that the two actors actually have sex with one another. Nothing is simulated—that includes oral and vaginal sex and masturbation (manual and with a vibrator).
Mike is now a glaciologist in Antarctica and he’s reminiscing about time spent with Lisa (mostly in bed). The following quote succinctly pinpoints theme:
Exploring the Antarctic is like exploring space. You enter a void, thousands of miles, with no people, no animals, no plants. You're isolated in a vast, empty continent. Claustrophobia and agoraphobia in the same place, like two people in a bed.
Here are the songs in the order they are performed:
- "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" – Dandy Warhols
- "Slow Life" – Super Furry Animals
- "Jacqueline" – Franz Ferdinand
- "Debbie" – Michael Nyman
- "Love Burns" – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (BRMC grace us with two songs. Lucky, lucky us!)
I recommend 9 Songs. It’s not the norm to see two actors in coitus, view semi-close-ups of their genitals and see them masturbating themselves AND be able to watch it in a non-porn variety movie house. 9 Songs suffers from a flimsy storyline and no character development. As a friend put it: “It has more story than porn where the repairman shows up and the naked woman answers the door.” I counter…we just didn’t see Mr. Man arrive.
I didn’t hate it, I didn’t love it, but I didn’t turn away.
Writer/Director: Michael Winterbottom
Country: UK
Genre: Drama
Run time: 66 minutes
Scale: 2
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