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This Holiday Season, Be Italian.Dec. 03, 2009112 Min.
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Watch: Nine 2009 123movies, Full Movie Online – Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest movie endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother. As his chaotic profession steadily destroys his personal life, Guido must find a balance between creating art and succumbing to its obsessive demands..
Plot: Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother.
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5.8/10 Votes: 44,094
39% | RottenTomatoes
49/100 | MetaCritic
N/A Votes: 506 Popularity: 8.977 | TMDB

Reviews:

Chicago style doesn’t work for Italian style
I was surprised when Rob Marshall’s Chicago took home the Oscar for Best Picture. A great movie but not my choice for best of 2002 (that I would award to Gangs of New York). All that aside, Marshall hasn’t done much since. Only one movie, Memoirs of a Geisha, which I for some reason have neglected to see (I try to watch films that win for best cinematography). That’s all beside the point. In his third film, Marshall goes back to his theatre roots and tackles another musical.

This time he has chosen Nine, a re-imagining of Federico Fellini’s classic film 8 1/2. Already I am skeptical of the situation. I am fine with musicals. Some of the best films on celluloid have been musicals. What I have a problem with is the reworking of such a classic film like 8 1/2. It would take a lot of convincing to win me over. Unfortunately, it did not succeed.

Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Guido Contini, an Italian director who is planning on making the most important Italian film ever call Italia. The only problem is he hasn’t written a script yet. To guide him he turns to the women in his life. His late mother (Sofia Loren), his wife Marion Cotillard, his mistress (Penelope Cruz), his costume designer and closest friend (Judi Dench), a fashion reporter (Kate Hudson), a childhood temptress Saraghina (Stacey “Fergie” Ferguson) and his leading lady (Nicole Kidman).

Contini tries to escape the pressure looming overhead by the media, his producers, and his cast and crew. He is constantly searching for the answer, bouncing around from one person to another. That’s really all there is. He talks to people, sleeps around, and goes into his past.

Right off the bat there is a slight problem. There are too many women! Not just for Contini but for the audience. There are too many big name actresses with almost equal parts. Who is more important? Who should we side with? It seems like he has such a close relationship with some of them and hardly any with others, yet they all practically get the same amount of screen time. They all have at least one song to their own.

That is another problem with the film. The musical aspect is distracting from the story. The music for the most part is average. A few songs like “Be Italian” and the Oscar nominated “Take it All” are very good, but for the most part, it’s all bells and whistles. Like he did with Chicago, Marshall takes us from the real world of dialogue to the imaginary world of singing and dancing. My issue with this is that he spends an almost equal amount of time in both places. With Chicago, there was more story divulged in the real world. Nine has too much singing and not enough story telling.

The musical numbers are impressive, in particular the two songs I mentioned. Fergie really flexes the golden pipes with “Be Italian,” a fun and sexy number that for me was the highlight of the film. Cotillard’s number was also one of the better ones. This was a more emotional struggle and was one of the few numbers I felt really connected with the story. Kidman and Cruz each have decent numbers, and Dench’s number is a bit over the top. She is better with the real world scenes.

I guess Marshall tried to replicate what he did with Chicago but came up short. I never was invested with any of the characters and Lewis’ performance was not quite what I was looking for. I would have loved to have seen Raul Julia, the original Guido Contini from the first Broadway production, or even Antonio Banderas in the revival. I think someone with a more musical background would have been a more acceptable choice, but nevertheless, Lewis does a fairly decent job.

Review By: moviemanMA
An embarrassing mess
I have to declare that Fellini 8 1/2 is first on my list of favorite films so it is rather obvious that, as far as I’m concerned, any one that tries to mess with it will be received with a huge amount of resistance. On the other hand I have been perversely attracted to the musical version from its initial opening on Broadway years ago. Nine, both on Broadway and unfortunately of the new film, clearly show that today’s culture has exhausted its own creativity and simply lost any shame in accepting the lack of an original idea.

From My Fair Lady to West Side Story or even A Little Night Music, many great musicals are based not on an original idea but on famous classics stories, books or films. Nothing wrong with that when the musical version adds a new layer, a twist to the vision of the original and the music brings a new vocabulary to tell the story.

The film of Nine doesn’t feel so much as inspired on 8 1/2 but a real misappropriation of someone else’s personal ideas. Whilst the change from screen to stage might have been challenging and innovative, the fact that we are now back to the same medium than the original makes more obvious the inadequacies of the concept as well as the poor talent of the Rob Marshall and his MTV School of film direction style. The use of memorable imagery in black and white in a scene such as the Saragena and the boys on the beach seems not a homage to the genius of Fellini but simply a blatant robbery that should have been protected by copyrights or at least by Marshall’s self censorship.

The misconception was there from the start. The film as a musical simply does not work in any way. The music itself seems extremely banal and you know you are in shaky territory when you can tell exactly the next musical phrase or words in a song. Further more the introduction of the songs, the sudden jump from action to singing feels totally forced.

How on earth a talented a actor such as Daniel Day Lewis could ever have got involved in this mess of styles and accent with dubious content escape me. Did he really think he could pass as a reincarnation of Mastroianni or even as an Italian? It might sound odd but in the film not even Sofia Loren sounds convincing as an Italian!

Interesting that at the core of the original 81/2,there is actually the conflict of the creative process and the fear of not being able to say anything new or of value. What’s could then be a better idea that cannibalizing Fellini’s masterpiece and bringing its level to a lower common denominator in order to try to capture the interest of today’s general audiences.

Review By: carlos.virgile-3

Other Information:

Original Title Nine
Release Date 2009-12-03
Release Year 2009

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 58 min (118 min)
Budget 80000000
Revenue 53825515
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama, Musical, Romance
Director Rob Marshall
Writer Michael Tolkin, Anthony Minghella, Arthur Kopit
Actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz
Country United Kingdom, United States
Awards Nominated for 4 Oscars. 8 wins & 60 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital, DTS, Dolby SR, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Panavision Primo Lenses, Arricam ST, Panavision Primo Lenses, Arriflex 235, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory Ascent 142 Features, London, UK (digital intermediate), Technicolor, London, UK (film processing)
Film Length 3,237 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 200T 5217, Vision3 500T 5219, Eastman Double-X 5222)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (3-perf) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic) (Fuji Eterna-CP 3513DI), D-Cinema

Nine 2009 123movies
Nine 2009 123movies
Original title Nine
TMDb Rating 5.527 506 votes

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