Nine Songs
This is a British film; a love story. It's about Lisa and Matt, and their one year relationship.
The special thing about it, is that it is a mainstream film where the actors have real sex, like in a porn movie, but without being a porn movie.
Nine Songs tells the story of Lisa and Matt in London. They meet at a concert, hook up, make out and eventually she has to leave. Fucking sad shit for all of us who've had to go through it.
From that first concert on, the film focus on their interactions, which turned out to be like any other relationship. They make love in his condo, wake up and have coffee; chat for a while; make love in the kitchen. They talk about this and that, are cute with each other, play silly games, take a weekend trip and make some more love. They take a bath where time seems infinite and just stare at each other, enjoying just being there, with each other. They go to another concert, sing, jump, drink, come back home and make love.
One day they're in bed and she stars to cry, for no apparent reason. What's wrong? -Matt asks. Nothing- she replies. Girls are complex creatures, and they sometimes just cry. And they do it for no apparent reason to us, stupid men; but the truth of the matter is that sometimes they just cry for no reason at all.
Porn movies are filled with explicit sex from beginning to end. In these, porn stars seems to fake an orgasm with every thrust from their male co-stars and scream so loud that sometimes you don't know if it's pleasure or plain pain. Porn movies are as explicit as an anatomy class in college; all sex scenes start with kissing followed by oral sex, then the intercourse in different positions and angles and finally the money shot. In porn movies everybody fucks everybody and at the end you know that, well, everybody is going to end up fucking everybody. The bigger the silicone implants and the louder the porn star, the better the movie.
Nine Songs is not a porn movie. Is a mainstream movie featuring real sex. The actors look like any person walking down the street and they don't have this great sex where Lisa would scream orgasm after orgasm. They have pretty normal sex, nothing out of this world. The film doesn't explore their erotism, sensuality or sexuality; is just a pretty normal movie about a pretty normal couple.
Even though the actors have no experience in porn movies, the truth of the matter is that they're actors, so I don't really know how much is acting and how much is real. For me it gets pretty real, in the sense of regular sex with your girlfriend/boyfriend. These scenes are shot with natural light and maybe two cameras at the most, I'd think is to give them more privacy and make it as real/normal as possible. There's no close ups and zooms and stuff like that, and I'd add that if you cut about seven minutes out of the film, it could easily be shown in a theater near you.
Nine Songs is a short film, it last only 69 minutes, I'm sure the director choose that number for its sexual connotations. There's no time to develop the characters nor to fall in love with their love lines. Perhaps what the director wanted to show was a simple relationship and that it's not a big deal to show regular actors making real love in a mainstream movie.
Matt, the main character starts to narrate his romance with Lisa from the vastness and immensity of Antartica. Perhaps it reflects his feelings after her departure: coldness, loneliness and an emptiness that is everywhere. A void so vast that is hard to believe it could be filled again one day. Perhaps the movie just reflects my feelings at this point in my life, after Stephanie's departure. That may be the reason why I enjoyed the movie so much, and why I felt identified with Matt, the main character and his relationship with Lisa. What a coincidence that both Lisa and Stephanie were both 21 years old.
I recommend the movie to every body out there. However, if you want to jerk off, I'd advise you to go elsewhere as Nine Songs is far from being the raunchy type of porn movies. Is just a regular movie about two regular people in a regular relationship, that happen to be making real love in front of the camera.
The special thing about it, is that it is a mainstream film where the actors have real sex, like in a porn movie, but without being a porn movie.
Nine Songs tells the story of Lisa and Matt in London. They meet at a concert, hook up, make out and eventually she has to leave. Fucking sad shit for all of us who've had to go through it.
From that first concert on, the film focus on their interactions, which turned out to be like any other relationship. They make love in his condo, wake up and have coffee; chat for a while; make love in the kitchen. They talk about this and that, are cute with each other, play silly games, take a weekend trip and make some more love. They take a bath where time seems infinite and just stare at each other, enjoying just being there, with each other. They go to another concert, sing, jump, drink, come back home and make love.
One day they're in bed and she stars to cry, for no apparent reason. What's wrong? -Matt asks. Nothing- she replies. Girls are complex creatures, and they sometimes just cry. And they do it for no apparent reason to us, stupid men; but the truth of the matter is that sometimes they just cry for no reason at all.
Porn movies are filled with explicit sex from beginning to end. In these, porn stars seems to fake an orgasm with every thrust from their male co-stars and scream so loud that sometimes you don't know if it's pleasure or plain pain. Porn movies are as explicit as an anatomy class in college; all sex scenes start with kissing followed by oral sex, then the intercourse in different positions and angles and finally the money shot. In porn movies everybody fucks everybody and at the end you know that, well, everybody is going to end up fucking everybody. The bigger the silicone implants and the louder the porn star, the better the movie.
Nine Songs is not a porn movie. Is a mainstream movie featuring real sex. The actors look like any person walking down the street and they don't have this great sex where Lisa would scream orgasm after orgasm. They have pretty normal sex, nothing out of this world. The film doesn't explore their erotism, sensuality or sexuality; is just a pretty normal movie about a pretty normal couple.
Even though the actors have no experience in porn movies, the truth of the matter is that they're actors, so I don't really know how much is acting and how much is real. For me it gets pretty real, in the sense of regular sex with your girlfriend/boyfriend. These scenes are shot with natural light and maybe two cameras at the most, I'd think is to give them more privacy and make it as real/normal as possible. There's no close ups and zooms and stuff like that, and I'd add that if you cut about seven minutes out of the film, it could easily be shown in a theater near you.
Nine Songs is a short film, it last only 69 minutes, I'm sure the director choose that number for its sexual connotations. There's no time to develop the characters nor to fall in love with their love lines. Perhaps what the director wanted to show was a simple relationship and that it's not a big deal to show regular actors making real love in a mainstream movie.Matt, the main character starts to narrate his romance with Lisa from the vastness and immensity of Antartica. Perhaps it reflects his feelings after her departure: coldness, loneliness and an emptiness that is everywhere. A void so vast that is hard to believe it could be filled again one day. Perhaps the movie just reflects my feelings at this point in my life, after Stephanie's departure. That may be the reason why I enjoyed the movie so much, and why I felt identified with Matt, the main character and his relationship with Lisa. What a coincidence that both Lisa and Stephanie were both 21 years old.
I recommend the movie to every body out there. However, if you want to jerk off, I'd advise you to go elsewhere as Nine Songs is far from being the raunchy type of porn movies. Is just a regular movie about two regular people in a regular relationship, that happen to be making real love in front of the camera.
Jean-Francois was drunk at 3:32 PM
3 Comments:
This is such a good movie review dude, keep it up.
BTW, who's Stephanie?
so you're sending comments to yourself...?
what do you think are my chances of finding such a movie in the midwest? most likely would have to netflix it.
anyway, since i'm like this by nature, i must ask what is the point then? if it's just about a regular relationship among normal people, what makes this film worth seeing?
and ps i noticed you're a capricorn, like me. have a good rest of the weekend!
I'm very sarcastic, some people can't keep up w/it. When I apply this sarcasm to myself, I end up laughing like crazy (at my own self). Hence my "self comments".
The movie awoke lots of feelings, memories and common situations in my mind; it kept me thinking about my last relationship and the role of nudity/sex in mainstream films for the next days. Such normal movie was worth watching for me. Let me know if it was for you.
ps Info in my profile is just random shit. I'm a LEO (July 30th)
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