NINE SONGS (2004)

Cast

Plot

The Brixton Academy, 'Black Rebel Motorcycle' banging out from the front of the stage, Lisa and Matt’s first meeting….and what a meeting. Consumed by a mutual lust that most of us only experience in our “really good dreams”, Lisa and Matt go at it like rabbits hooked up to an intravenous Viagra drip, but as little else in their relationship develops so the inevitability of its conclusion looms. Directed by Michael Winterbottom, Nine Songs is a difficult film to qualify, its explicit nature is without question, but its effectiveness as an original, and indeed, brave study of modern emotional mores will remain contentious until, well, something more contentious comes along.