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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396134218
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 14, 2006
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 36961
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Nine Lives is an award winning, moving exploration of the individual experiences of nine everyday women as told through nine single unbroken takes. As characters from one story reappear in supporting roles in others, director Rodrigo Garcia interweaves a grand tapestry of storytelling as he reveals nine unique women who meet the travails and disappointments of life with a resilience that is at once heartening and heartbreaking.
Amazon.com:
Nine Lives is a collection of related short stories, each a snippet from a woman's life, each shot in one uninterrupted ten-minute take. Remarkably, this never becomes a gimmick; the skillfully writing and directing make the restriction feel essential to each story. A woman in prison (Elpidia Carillo, Bread and Roses) struggles to maintain some kind of balance despite her circumstances; the ex-wife (Amy Brenneman, Judging Amy) gets a cool reception at the funeral of her ex-husband's second wife; a mother (Glenn Close, Dangerous Liaisons) and her daughter (Dakota Fanning, War of the Worlds) have a picnic at a graveside. Each story deftly escalates the emotional circumstances; only one story feels at all forced. The acting is superb throughout--hardly surprising from a cast that includes Sissy Spacek (In the Bedroom), Holly Hunter (The Piano), Aidan Quinn (Benny & Joon), Molly Parker (Deadwood), and many more, all superb and clearly relishing the opportunity to perform such a long and complex scene (most movies rarely have more than thirty seconds without an edit). If there's a criticism, it's that the stories are almost unrelentingly serious; anxiety, melancholy, yearning, and regret are thoroughly explored--a little more humor might have provided more contrast and variety. Written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia (Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her), who shares with his father Gabriel Garcia Marquez a fascination with interconnected lives. --Bret Fetzer
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Rating: - Excellent
Need the sins of the father be visited upon the son? Not if the terrific- nay, great, little 2005 film, Nine Lives, written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia, is Exhibit A. Garcia is the son of famed Nobel Prize winning magical realist fictionist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, of Love In A Time Of Cholera and One Hundred Years Of Solitude fame. Yet, despite that fame, the father's work, in novels and short fictions, is usually baroque and anomic in narrative, and hollow and superficial in characterization. In this film, his son, however, shows how quickly and deftly a whole life can be sketched and distilled- if not contained, in just ten to twelve real time minutes, doing something his father never did- create complex and compelling characters and situations. He has a human touch in his art that his father has always lacked with his magical realism.
This hour and fifty-two minute film is, in short, antithetical to everything Garcia's father's art stands for. And, as a filmgoer, you should be very thankful for that! I'd never heard of this director, but heard good things about this film. However, I never take such recommendations too seriously, because for every great film like this I am told I need to see pretentious trash, like Crash, this past year's Oscar winner, an ensemble film that only wishes it could have a fraction of the hyper-realism this film does. Prior to this film, Garcia had directed commercials, some television episodes, including The Sopranos, and two prior low budget films- 2001's ... Read More
Rating: - Nine of the Best Movies You've Never Seen
What a remarkable oversight we've got here! Imagine if somebody walked up to you and said, "Hey, I just saw this incredible movie! It's about 9 different women, each with their own short story that lasts about 10 minutes. Oh, and each story is told in a single camera shot."
The premise alone was enough for me to check out NINE LIVES, a captivating collection of short dramas with an even more impressive cast. But as neat a concept as this film is, I was instantly hooked from the opening footsteps and expressions of an incarcerated mother. Think of a movie shot very similar to Hitchock's ROPE, except that instead of convenient reel changes after 10 minutes, writer-director Rodrigo Garcia utilitzes incredible techniques and transitions. Garcia has worked on various HBO series, most notably IN TREATMENT. In that show, Garcia again used a similar real-time format to shoot the 30-minute therapy sessions. Like him or not, Garcia has mastered photography and pacing.
The casting is perfect. Each story focuses on a woman struggling with various aspoects of her life. They could be as simple as a mother and daughter having a picnic at a graveyard, or as complicated as woman attending the funeral with a former lover. Then again, those examples are only simple at the outset. You have no idea how each story is going to play out; they remain powerful even after repeat viewings. My personal favorite (and probably most people's, too) is Diana's.
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Rating:  - It was ok
The movie wasn't what I expected, It just dragged and there wasn't a whole lot of important things, well to me anyway. It is kind of boring
Rating: - Unintentional comedy.
After a couple of vignettes I was ready to throw in the towel. My wife had had enough and went off to vacuum the house. But the vignette of the deaf sex guy at the funeral redeemed this maudlin pig of a film. It was so over-the-top funny that my sides were splitting. The rest of the film evoked fits of laughter at the self-parody it became. Definitely a candidate for an MST3K party!
Rating:  - I'll give it five stars..
Definitely ! It's about nine women, nine important moments, glimpses...This movie is very clever in a way that you don't especially see the end of every story, why ? Because it's about life, relationships or family...don't expect finals,it could be 12 minutes of your life, and it looks so realistic, so human, things people live or go through. What I really liked in this movie is that every actor, famous or not, doesn't look/sound like an actor..It could be you, it could be me. I still have a weird aftertaste after seeing this movie...
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