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"Nine" is just plain adrift in its own lack of necessity. It is filled wall to wall with stars (Marion Cotillard as the wife figure, Penelope Cruz as the mistress, Judi Dench as the worrying assistant, Nicole Kidman as the muse, the sublime Sophia Loren as the mother).But that's what they are, stars, because the movie doesn't make them characters.

Italian film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) grapples with epic crises in his personal and professional lives. At the same time, he must strike a balance of the demands of numerous women ...

Roger Ebert September 09, 2009. Tweet. #9, the hero of "9." Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The first images are spellbinding. In close-up, thick fingers make the final stitches in a roughly humanoid little rag doll, and binocular eyes are added. This creature comes to life, walks on tottering legs, and ventures fearfully into the ...

57% 184 Reviews Tomatometer 56% 250,000+ Ratings Audience Score When 9 (Elijah Wood) springs to life, it finds itself in a post-apocalyptic world where humans no longer exist, and the only signs ...

Nine is a 2009 romantic musical drama film directed and co-produced by Rob Marshall from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella, based on the stage musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the 1963 film 8½.In addition to songs from the stage musical, all written by Maury Yeston, the film has three original songs, also written by Yeston (Take It All, Cinema Italiano ...

In "Nine," written by Michael Tolkin and the late Anthony Minghella, you get a tired filmmaker with too many women in his life and not enough movie ideas. Daniel Day-Lewis plays Guido Contini ...

"Nine," directed by Rob Marshall ("Chicago," "Memoirs of a Geisha") from the Broadway musical (first staged in 1982 and revived in 2003), is a movie about creative blockage and sexual ...

Nine: Directed by Rob Marshall. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Sandro Dori, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard. Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.

Though it wasn't the best movie musical, Nine certainly had its moments. Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Sep 11, 2017. Alissa Wilkinson Paste Magazine. TOP CRITIC. A painfully formulaic message ...

Nine is a vibrant and provocative musical that follows the life of world famous film director Guido Contini as he reaches a creative and personal crisis of epic proportion, while balancing the numerous women in his life including his wife, his mistress, his film star muse, his confidant and costume designer, a young American fashion journalist, the whore from his youth and his mother.

Synopsis. Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a gifted Italian filmmaker who, at the age of fifty, has developed writer's block and urges all the women in his life, alive and dead, to help him with it. His mind wanders to his unfinished set, where dozens of dancers and the film's leading ladies appear: Claudia Jenssen (Nicole Kidman), his ...

Nine is a musical film inspired by Fellini's classic 8½, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a troubled director and a dazzling ensemble of women. Philip French reviews this homage to cinema and ...

Our review: Parents say ( 2 ): Kids say ( 5 ): It's a little unclear how an Irish actor wound up playing a tortured Italian director, but how lucky the audience is for it. NINE features Day-Lewis as we've rarely seen him: whimsical, unpredictable, prone to both rage and passion. He may not be exactly like Fellini's hero in 8 1/2 (on which this ...

User Reviews. The movie version of the musical "Nine" (based on Fellini's 8-1/2) was released in 2009 with a wonderful cast that included Daniel Day-Lewis as Guido, Marion Cotillard as his wife Luisa, Penelope Cruz as his mistress Carla, Kate Hudson as a reporter, Judy Dench as his costumer, Nicole Kidman as his muse Claudia, Fergie as a woman ...

Nine. By Peter Travers. December 10, 2009. Rob Marshall's flawed but frequently dazzling Nine is a hot-blooded musical fantasia full of song, dance, raging emotion and simmering sexuality. We ...

The CGI by first time animation studio Focus Features is very detailed oriented. The dark, dirty and crumbling cityscape in which most of 9 takes place is eerie and depressing. The mechanized enemies are jagged, hard and ominously lifeless. The dolls are doughy-like and cute in a sad sort of way. 85% of the movie takes place under the black of ...

NINE also contains brief foul language. As for the movie's dominant worldview, it is strongly Romantic, in the philosophical sense. The main focus is on the protagonist's emotional states in his life and his artistic expression, as well as his relationships with women. Ironically, the protagonist himself seems to be aware he's flouting ...

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The strength of "Nine Days" is not so much the scenario (although that is imaginative and well-constructed) but the mood Oda sets, the clarity with which he establishes this world, how it operates, its rules and traditions. There is a score by Antonio Pinto but it drops out for long stretches.

Duke and Beetz in particular deliver performances for the ages. And the movie's inquiries, about ethics, morality, consciousness and the ability to hang on in this brief crack of light we're ...

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Powered by JustWatch. "Nine to Five" is a good-hearted, simple-minded comedy that will win a place in film history, I suspect, primarily because it contains the movie debut of Dolly Parton. She is, on the basis of this one film, a natural-born movie star, a performer who holds our attention so easily that it's hard to believe it's her first ...

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Unsung Hero: Directed by Richard L. Ramsey, Joel Smallbone. With Daisy Betts, Joel Smallbone, Kirrilee Berger, Jonathan Jackson. The movie also follows the family's mother, Helen Smallbone, as she uses her faith to hold the family of nine together by turning struggles into an adventure for her children.

Patrick Cavanaugh gives the film 2 out of 5 stars in his review : The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is mostly a harmless outing that isn't actively bad, and even has isolated incidents of ...

Advertisement. Most of "Triple 9" is shot in close-up and near-total darkness. Hillcoat and Karakatsanis mistakenly think that this will compensate for a lack of character or plot worth caring about. So, we get sweaty, dirty, grimy camerawork, under-lit to a nearly-parodic degree, but none of it resonates beyond showy filmmaking.

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Show rock concert, show sex, show icy wastes of Antarctica. Repeat eight times. That's essentially the structure of Michael Winterbottom's "9 Songs," a movie that marks an important director's attempt to deal with explicit sex. As an idea, the film is fascinating, but as an experience it grows tedious; the concerts lack closeups, the sex lacks context, and Antarctica could use a few penguins.