9 Songs

After meeting at a gig, a London couple’s relationship unfolds in Michael Winterbottom’s intimate and controversial portrait of sex and live music.

Gliding across the vast emptiness of the South Pole, glaciologist Matt looks back over his relationship with Lisa, an American student. After meeting at a gig in Brixton and quickly ending up in bed, the couple pursue their shared musical passions - taking in live concerts from the likes of Elbow and Franz Ferdinand - and an intense sexual relationship, captured in explicit, unsimulated detail.

Michael Winterbottom’s drama was pronounced upon release as the most sexually explicit British film ever made, garnering much inevitable tabloid controversy along the way. It’s undeniably graphic, but also an intriguing examination of the roles that sex and song play in forming our memories.