Being nude doesn't mean you're interesting

"9 Songs" opens today at the Lagoon. This is the British movie that features actors actually having sex. But it's not porn. Why? Why is this not porn? Well, it's got shot more nicely. It has interludes without sex. And ummm...I guess that's why. It's certainly not the acting or storyline that make it rise above that cinematic specialty of the San Fernando Valley.

The plot: boy and girl meet at a rock concert and get it on. They continue to get it on and go see rock shows together. They have dull conversations and go on a weekend together. They get it on in a tub. We get to see shots of aerial shots of Antartica. Our hero delivers pseudo-meaningful commentaries comparing love and ice floes. She's young and "crazy" according to script, but the film never gives her a chance to be that interesting so we'll have to take the screen writer's word for it.

The highlight of the movie isn't any of the listless sex scenes, but the performance by the British favorite sons of the early nineties: Primal Scream. If only the actors could evoke the passion that Bobbie Gillespie displays while singing "Movin' On Up" (a song well over a decade old that the man still finds fire for) the film might have been a little bit steamy.

it won't stop the people at the lagoon form standing and appluding at the end.

Actually I thought the female lead had a certain charm.
I could see her appeal in the few scenes that they weren't at a concert or in bed.
But the script was uhhh, minimalist.