What should one make of this? The most respectable porno ever? A one-sided glimpse at a relationship - not a narrative about it, just a look at it? Sex scenes interrupted by some trips to music venues? Metaphors about being in love and spending time in Antarctica?
Director Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs is all of that. An unusually frank and explicit observation of a relationship - heavy on the memories of supposedly steamy (for the characters involved) sex scenes.
But me - I was rather bored. Just watching a couple of people who are smitten with one another - well, it's rather dull, no matter what the characters are doing. Still, it's interesting as a film-making experiment I suppose. And some of the music performances are fun. Me being me, I liked Franz Ferdinand the best, though the performances by The Dandy Warhols (doing a surprising pretty, quiet and chill rendition of one of my favorite songs, "You Were the Last High"), Primal Scream and Super Furry Animals were good too. So I guess I didn't really enjoy this film, but it's not awful.
Posted by armand at December 6, 2005 12:38 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Movies