By
Adrian Gaitan
Published: January 25, 2010
Categorized in | Film & TV
Nine is the story of Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis), a debonair Italian man with multiple - and might I add gorgeous - lovers looking for his latest inspiration for his up-and-coming ninth film, "Italia."
Intriguing and original, right?
As a whole, this musical was a total disappointment. I expected so much more from Chicago director Rob Marshall. But when you take out all the dialogue, and just leave the musical numbers of the film, it turns into this great masterpiece - OK, maybe not masterpiece, but it is good. I mean come on, look at the cast; they're all, for the most part, amazing actors and singers.
Marion Cotillard plays Louisa Contini, Guido's innocent, loving and talented wife. Maybe I've been under a rock, but I've never even heard of Cotillard until this movie. Her talent and beauty impressed me, so I won't bag on her too badly. In the movie she sang a total of two songs, one actually being good and very heart felt. I loved her role and song "My Husband Makes Movies."
Penélope Cruz plays Carla, Guido's sexy mistress, and was a total smoldering temptress throughout the entire movie. Obviously Cruz can act, but she can sing too. Her song "A Call From the Vatican" was ridiculously hot and borderline soft porn.
Nicole Kidman plays Claudia, the star of Guido's eight other movies and his muse. Believe it or not, Guido also had a nowhere-near professional relationship with her. When seeing Kidman's name on the list of actresses to star in the film I thought, "Could this movie be the next Moulin Rouge?!" It sure wasn't. It was so disappointing to find out Kidman was only in the movie for 2.5 seconds. Ok, I'm being a little dramatic, but she was only in the movie for one scene that lasted about 10 minutes. Come on Marshall, utilize who you've cast, especially when they have talent like Kidman's.
Kate Hudson plays American fashion editor Stephanie, an admirer of Guido who tries to seduce him after multiple rounds of drinks. Really, who would have thought that Hudson had a set of lungs on her? Her song "Cinema Italiano" was by far the best performance in the movie. It consisted of tons of lights, a runway and about 20 men in slimming black suits with skinny black ties and Hudson in a silver sequenced mini dress. This two-minute performance made the movie worth the $11.
For fans of any of these women I would suggest you not waste your money and just watch their individual acts on YouTube.
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You had no idea what you were seeing. This is an hommage to Fellini’s movie 8 1/2, so Rob Marshall needed to stay within the character guidelines of THAT movie. Claudia didn’t appear throughout the entire Fellini film, so there was no reason to suggest Marshall wasn’t using Kidman enough in the cast he had. He did.
And indeed you have been living under a rock if you didn’t realize (or Google enough to find out) that Marion Cotillard won the American, British, and French Academy Awards in 2008 for Best Actress in LA VIE EN ROSE!
While I see that the Daily Titan is celebrating “50 years of journalism excellence,” I am wondering if fact-checking has been all but abandoned. Not to worry. For the uninformed, you can find Marion Cotillard’s Oscar acceptance speech on YouTube, as well as clips from her brilliant performance as Edith Piaf in “La Vie en Rose.” And for those who may have never heard of Edith Piaf, another Google search might be in order as well.
Unfortunately, not all of us are as cultured as the IMDB-lovers above. What I do know is Nine was, for lack of a better word, lax. I apologize for living under a rock, but had I been living with the IMDB on my homepage I still wouldn’t chastise someone for not knowing Marion Cotillard. Regardless, hommage or not, musicals are meant to be an enthralling, spectacular fussion of auditory and visual stimulation. Nine was dull and lifeless. I don’t believe Miss Marion Cotillard will be making another Acadamey Award apperance any time soon. You both need to seriously relax and get over your google-happy little phalangies and condescending attitude.
Our point is that one does the research FIRST. If you don’t know who someone is, you find out. You don’t write, “I must have been living under a rock…..” And you’re making an assumption that we are both IMDb-connected at the hip. As a matter of fact, I first saw LA VIE EN ROSE, then saw Cotillard in TIME, then started checking on her — in 2007. I saw her win the Oscar and the BAFTA. That has nothing to do with IMDb; indeed, I’d never heard of IMDb then, though it is a useful tool now.
No need to consider someone “condescending” because they require the usual professional standards for someone writing to publish.
I would argue the point you are trying to make isn’t necessarily about the film review, but the author’s “lack of in depth research and responsible journalism” concerning the movie, specifically, its cast. Last time I checked the only qualification anyone needed to publish an opinion piece was an opinion. Let me know if the qualifications have recently changed. Until then the piece written needs be be taken with a grain of salt. (Just as any published piece, well researched, Googled, or otherwise.)