9 Songs (2004)

NR07/16/2004Drama, Music, Romance1h 9m
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2 lovers, one summer, and the 9 songs that defined them.

Overview

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 unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Kieran O'Brien

    Matt

  2. Cast 1

    Margo Stilley

    Lisa

  3. Courtney Taylor-Taylor

    Himself - The Dandy Warhols (uncredited)

  4. Cast 1

    Alex Kapranos

    Himself - Franz Ferdinand (uncredited)

  5. Cast 1

    Guy Garvey

    Himself - Elbow (uncredited)

  6. Cast 1

    Robert Levon Been

    Himself - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (uncredited)

  7. Cast 1

    Peter Hayes

    Himself - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (uncredited)

  8. Gruff Rhys

    Himself - Super Furry Animals (uncredited)

  9. Jason Stollsteimer

    Himself - The Von Bondies (uncredited)

Lisa is an exchange student in London. Her affair with Matt has the urgency of the ephemeral. They are enjoying an extended, unofficial honeymoon; we see them dancing, drinking beer, doing drugs, hanging out, having irrelevant conversations and, above all, going to rock shows (all nine of the titular songs are performed live) and having sex (Matt and Lisa have intercourse the same way they talk; ie, like real human beings as opposed to movie characters). There is generous nudity, and the sex is sometimes tentative and sometimes vigorous, and often uninhibited and experimental – as well as e...