It’s London, England and a glaciologist named Matt (Kieran O’Brien) has met and fallen in love with an American free spirit named Lisa (Margo Stilley). Lisa is slender, graceful and a pretty thing, she can also dance which makes sense since Matt met her at a concert. The two make love twice a day and the sex gets more intense as the days go by until Lisa seems to slip away from her attraction to Matt, seeking other ways for pleasure before they reignite their flame on Matt’s birthday.
Sounds pretty one-dimensional I know and this little movie is the kind that few will love and many will hate. For the prudish, non-porn watchers out there, this will be an offensive and worthless movie to see. For people like myself who love the idea of sex, the human body and realistic scenarios in movies, this may be one you should check out. There is penetration, full on xxx style but it is done sparingly, cutting to the more sensual portions over the raw sex that a pornographic movie would concentrate on. For the sexual parts of 9 Songs (which is 80% of the movie) I can see the ladies liking the direction a lot better than the male audience.
9 Songs shows live modern rock bands performing at a Club that Matt and Lisa frequent throughout. The movie cuts each performance (the musical ones) with the tender moments Matt and Lisa share sucking, licking and penetrating each other between the sheets. The intensity and graphic nature of the scenes intensify as the movie goes on and in one of the final scenes we see Matt don a condom and slip himslef into Lisa full cowgirl style… if only real pornos had decent acting like this movie did I wouldn’t have to hold back on adding this to that category. It’s not a porno movie however, it is an Indy film about what seemed like a few months of a love affair that ends abruptly, being told by Matt.
My only real annoyance with the movie had to be with the concerts being cut into the intimacy of the sex scenes. The movie literally was bouncing from concert to bedroom, you would see guys on stage and then the next scene you would see Lisa giving Matt a hand job until he explodes all over himself (yes it is that graphic). Calling this movie bizarre is one man’s word but for me it was sexy, and less offensive than other penetration movies like Anti-Christ and Caligula.
Final Thoughts
The films title alludes to 9 concert songs that the couple attends in between the days of their volcanic lust. I loved the realism in the Lisa character who is sexy as a skinny girl but dreams of women with large breasts, stresses that she looks like a boy and is immature in her own naive ways. Matt is along for the ride as any guy would if he had a sexual creature like Lisa wanting it all hours of the day. I also liked that the film stressed the importance of safe sex, there is one scene where Matt asks to go it raw with Lisa, even saying that he would take all the tests but Lisa says no. For those of you who would buy this just because you read my review and want to see the sex… you will not be disappointed. You have all sorts of oral sex, hand jobs, foot jobs and full on penetration in between those 9 songs and if you are a fan of Franz Ferdinand music you will be right at home with the entire thing.
Check out 9 Songs if you’re brave, I am amazed that it made the cut past censors in order to be allowed into mainstream cinema. No negative judgements here, it was artistic, it was sexy, and it was quite a surprise to see.
Cinephile and opinion writer, Greg Dragon has been a fan of movies since the 80's when Kung Fu theater was all the rage and Roger Moore was James Bond. As an opinion writer that has reviewed Box Office releases on a number of prominent websites, Greg is the founder and lead critic of Spicy Movie Dogs.
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