Nine
The movie follows arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini who is struggling to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, while balancing the numerous women in his life including his wife, his mistress, his film star muse, his confidant and costume designer, an American fashion journalist, the whore from his youth and his mother.
13 April 1983, London, England, UK
27 March 1975, Whittier, California, USA
4 January 1981
1970, Zurich, Switzerland
21 December 1938, Ostiglia, Lombardy, Italy
1 February 1956, Rome, Lazio, Italy
9 December 1934, York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
1 May 1955, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
September 24, 2014
Largely, the numbers just sit on top of the dramatic action, adding little to our understanding of the characters and seldom contributing to the advancement of the story.
December 28, 2009
Nine should have been called 4Â 1/2 because it doesn't come close to the work of the master who inspired it.
December 26, 2009
There's a lot of high-powered star wattage in Nine, but it never generates much heat.
September 24, 2012
What we get is a film that is close in story to Fellini's film, but which needed more time for its actresses and better music to make it all worthwhile.
April 12, 2016
A painfully formulaic message, trite dialogue, and a strangely episodic narrative structure that renders the whole thing exhausting.
December 28, 2009
Nine is, if not a grand work, terrifically tasty eye and ear candy. Two numbers -- from somewhat unexpected quarters -- are worth the price of admission alone.
December 28, 2009
The film suffers from the simple fact that its songs aren't memorable.
July 11, 2015
It's an over-the-top, eye-popping musical that doesn't completely satisfy, especially compared to it's original source classic.
March 11, 2011
It has a lot to gnaw on, but it's worth gnawing on.
December 26, 2009
Where Fellini dared us to race alongside his imagination, Marshall is thuddingly cautious.
July 30, 2012
Day-Lewis, over-egging the angst as well as the Eye-talian accent, is charmless and insufferable. But the person you really want to slap is Marshall, whose brash directing style simply doesn't suit Nine's more whimsical charms.
December 28, 2009
It's a movie about a musical about a movie about a man's inner life -- surely we can eliminate some of the middle men.
