9 Songs

2004
Starring
Kieran O’Brien as Matt
Margo Stilley as Lisa
A Bunch of Bands as Themselves
Directed by Michael Winterbottom

Standard Indy film with unknown actors, long band interludes, improvised dialogue, and hard core sex. Wait…hard core sex? Yes, this movie has real penetration and a money shot. Brown Bunny ain’t got nothing on this! You would think that since this sounds like a high budget porno then it would be interesting, sadly that is not the case. The entire bulk of the film is band/sex/band/sex/band/sex repeated until the end. It’s not even erotic sex, the scenes are not well lit and do not play like porn scenes, but they don’t play like normal movie sex scenes, either. Instead, there is just some raw feeling, as some of the scenes are far more explicit than others, but most have the same general tone of tediousness. Those of you who think sex could never be boring will be shocked by this film, it drains the sex out of sex.
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