
Nine is cinematic treat and a romantic musical , which unfolds the story of Guido Contini, a world famous Italian film director. The movie peels the layers of his life, during his mid-life crisis, when he is unable to balance the many women of his life as well as perform professionally to deliver a hit movie, after two successive flops.
It reminded me of Guru Dutt and Sanjay Leela Bansali style of cinema with the play of lights and colours, and a song for every significant character of the plot.
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Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis)
The smoking, shrugging and bravura suit wearing Maestro — is like any of us, who has reached his creative saturation and is lost..listen to what he has to sing..
"I would like to be here,
I would like To be there,
I would like to everywhere at once.
I know that's a contradiction in terms,
And it's a problem, especially when
My body's clearing forty
as my mind is nearing ten..."
His Wife (Marion Cotillard)I would like To be there,
I would like to everywhere at once.
I know that's a contradiction in terms,
And it's a problem, especially when
My body's clearing forty
as my mind is nearing ten..."
Soul mate personified, one who is always with him thru thick and thin, who gave up her acting career and is ready to forgive her husband of all his sins.. but then she gets to say.. "Thank you for reminding me I'm not special. You don't even see what you do to me. Even the moments I think are ours, it's just... you working to get what you want. " and sings..
"My husband makes movies.
To make them he lives a kind of dream
In which his actions aren't always
What they seem."
To make them he lives a kind of dream
In which his actions aren't always
What they seem."
His Mistress (Penelope Cruz)
Lust personified after all who can say no to Penelope when she says "I would be waiting for you, with my legs wide open" and sings to him --
I was lazing around my bedroom
When an idea occured to me I thought you might be
Wondering about.
Guido...
Who's not wearing any clothes?
I'm not, my darling.
His Film Star Muse (Nicole Kidman)When an idea occured to me I thought you might be
Wondering about.
Guido...
Who's not wearing any clothes?
I'm not, my darling.
Need personified, the kind to which we fall prey to , given the circumstances, which grows on you from need to a habit and then one fine day it ends as memories ... frozen yet eloquent. She sings..
In a very unusual way one time I needed you.
In a very unusual way you were my friend.
Maybe it lasted a day, maybe it lasted an hour.
But, somehow it will never end.
His Costume designer(Judi Dench)In a very unusual way you were my friend.
Maybe it lasted a day, maybe it lasted an hour.
But, somehow it will never end.
Friendship personified, a true confidant, one who never judges him, and helps him connect the pieces of his life, she summarises his life and work when she sings:
Le cinema is in a crisis
Directors are so existentailists
The movie are not worth the entrance prices.
If no one sings a love song when he is kissed
Contini!! I want a musical!
Directors are so existentailists
The movie are not worth the entrance prices.
If no one sings a love song when he is kissed
Contini!! I want a musical!
An American fashion journalist (Kate Hudson)
Adultery personified in the form of a modern liberated woman, who is on board for any fling and one-night stands, who appreciates his cinema when she says:
I love the play of light
The way Contini puts his image through a prism
I feel my body chill
Gives me a special thrill
The way Contini puts his image through a prism
I feel my body chill
Gives me a special thrill
The whore from his youth (Stacy Ferguson)
Mischief personified in the form of adolescent whore, who he as kid would pay to explore beyond the tabooed borders of man and woman, where the mystery of a woman unfolds.. She has to say a lot when she sings, although it's yet not discovered how to make a woman happy
So you little Italian devils,
you want to know about love?
Saraghina will tell you....
If you want to make a woman happy......
you want to know about love?
Saraghina will tell you....
If you want to make a woman happy......
And his mother (Sophia Loren).
A mother is a always a mother first and a woman later, she is the one who always make us feel we are the best, she always guides us on the right path but never forces anything ever..
Pray I´m there to guide you
and when you grow old,
how my love still will shine?
Always remember my son...
you will always be mine!
Yes! Mine!
and when you grow old,
how my love still will shine?
Always remember my son...
you will always be mine!
Yes! Mine!
I guess, i have talked about all the best things in the movie, so no need to catch it.
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