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The chart favourites join BRMC, Super Furry Animals and Dandy Warhols on Nine Songs, which is directed by Michael Winterbottom, previously behind 24 Hour Party People. Clips of the bands playing are intercut with the unsimulated sex scenes, which feature fellatio, cunnilingus and ejaculation. It’s a first for British cinema.
It’s a love story concerning a young London based couple. that received its premier at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday. Guardian film writer Derek Malcolm said: “Nine Songs looks like a porn movie, but feels like a love story. The sex is used as a metaphor for the rest of couple’s relationship. And it is shot with Winterbottom’s customary sensitivity.”
Winterbottom told The Guardian: “Books deal explicitly with sex as they do with any other subject. Cinema has been extremely conservative and prudish. I wanted to go to the opposite extreme and show the relationship only through sex. Part of the point of making the film was to say, ‘What’s wrong with showing sex?’”
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