9 Songs

English

May 16, 2004

1hr 11min

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Movie Details:

Also known as	9 orgasmos
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genres	Drama, Music, Romance
Release date	16 May 2004
Running time	1hr 11min
Starring	Kieran O’Brien Margo Stilley
Directed by	Michael Winterbottom
Written by	Michael Winterbottom
Produced by	Andrew Eaton Michael Winterbottom
Cinematography by	Marcel Zyskind
Edited by	Mat Whitecross Michael Winterbottom
Production Company	Revolution Films
Distributor	Optimum Releasing

Cast & Characters:

Kieran O’Brien as Matt
Margo Stilley as Lisa

Storyline:

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.

About Movie:

9 Songs is a British art romantic drama film written and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The film stars Kieran O’Brien and Margo Stilley. The title refers to the nine songs played by eight different rock bands that complement the story of the film.

On the first day of filming in the fall of 2003, Margo Stilley and Kieran O’Brien shot a scene where they are just kissing and taking their clothes off. “It wasn’t until after lunch that we had sex,” O’Brien recalls. As would happen throughout the shoot, Winterbottom left little to chance. “He really mapped out everything,” O’Brien says. “The order he wanted me to take off my clothes, her clothes, whether my socks stayed on or not. He had specific ideas of how he wanted our bodies to move. Sometimes, he would start us and then stop and say, ‘Let’s try this from a slightly different angle,’ and then take 15 minutes to reset the shot. I wondered if he remembered the delicate machinery of the male sex organ.”

Kieran O’Brien and Margo Stilley did not communicate with each other between filming so that their off-screen relationship would not affect the one they had on screen. The sex scenes were shot with only the two actors, the director, the cameraman, and the soundman on the set.

Margo Stilley never wanted to be credited in the film because of the unsimulated, explicit sex scenes. She asked the director to refer to her in interviews as “Lisa”, the name of her character in the film. It, also,was her debut.