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9 Songs

2004 · 70 min

A cool, intimate slide into a summer affair, where raw sex and live rock blur into a wistful memory of closeness and drift.

Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Genres: Drama, Music, Romance
Starring: Kieran O'Brien, Margo Stilley, Courtney Taylor-Taylor

Tagline: 2 lovers, one summer, and the 9 songs that defined them.
Overview: 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.

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Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Genres: Drama, Music, Romance
Starring: Kieran O'Brien, Margo Stilley, Courtney Taylor-Taylor

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
sexuality
memory
isolation
music
Places: big city
single country house
wilderness
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language strong
Violence none
Sex strong

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	7
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	6

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