9 Songs

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 nights end.Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to the nine live-concert songs of the story’s title. At the end the romance wanes, Matt attends concerts alone, and Lisa returns to her home in the US.
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Direction: Michael Winterbottom
Script: Michael Winterbottom
Cinematography: Marcel Zyskind
Editing: Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom
Actors: Kieran O’ Brien, Margo Stilley, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Von Bodies, Elbow, Franz Ferdinand, Primal Scream, The Dandy Warhols, Super Fury Animals
Production: Revolution Films 2004
Producers: Andrew Eaton
Format: 35mm
Color: Color
Production Country: UK
Production Year: 2004
Duration: 71’

Michael Winterbottom

A talented and intelligent British filmmaker of intense and often introspective relationship dramas, Michael Winterbottom has displayed a wide array of diverse film projects that ranged from neo-noir thrillers and political docudramas to gritty family melodramas and satirical comedies. After getting his start with Thames Television, Winterbottom made his feature debut with the lesbian-centric noir Butterfly Kiss (1995) before his ambitious take on Thomas Hardy’s novel, Jude (1996). He earned considerable international acclaim for his searing war drama, Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), which unflinchingly depicted the horror of the brutal war in Yugoslavia. After the interesting, but little-seen revisionist Western, The Claim (2000), Winterbottom offered a restless kaleidoscope of images accompanied by a stellar soundtrack for 24 Hour Party People (2002), which once again helped boost his international acclaim. By the time he directed Casey Affleck in The Killer Inside Me (2010), Winterbottom was considered to be one of the more artistically daring directors working in contemporary cinema.

Filmography

1995 Butterfly Kiss
1996 Jude
1998 I Want You
1999 Wonderland
2000 The Claim
2002 24 Hour Party People
2004 9 Songs
2006 The Road to Guantanamo
2008 A Summer in Genoa
2010 The Killer Inside Me
2012 Everyday
2014 The Trip to Italy
2015 The Emperor's New Clothes
2018 The Wedding Guest
2020 The Trip to Greece
2023 Shoshana