Trailer!: Nine

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Trailer!: Nine

POSTED: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 5:35 PM

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Look, I'm not going to lie to you fine folk ' I'm in love with Daniel Day-Lewis. Deeply, madly and crazily in love. So until I actually see Nine, the musical version of Fellini's 8 1/2, I'm just going to go ahead and assume this will be greatest movie musical ever made solely because of his participation.

Now that that's out of the way, let's get to the actual criticism. I'm not a fan of the modern musical ' I like 'em big and bawdy like the Busby Berkeley spectacles of the '30s/'40s or the down and dirty Bob Fosse-esque musicals of the '70s (if you haven't seen All That Jazz, you are a terrible person). Current musicals are this weird mixture of the two ' half spectacle/half down dirty. Moulin Rouge made me nauseous, Chicago was alright but I still wish Renee Zelleweger would relax her face and Mamma Mia! made me want to kill myself in some really gruesome way. Half my problem with these current musicals is that, most of the time, the main players are not musical actors. Meryl Streep? Let's all agree she's fucking phenomenal at what she does but girly cannot, and should not, be hitting those high notes.

Nine could fall into that same trap ' Bill the Butcher/Daniel Plainview singing and dancing? Ugh, is that Fergie? But I started to believe in this movie when I saw Day-Lewis walk on top of the couch in silhouette. Damn, he's beautiful, isn't he? And then I saw Kate Hudson essentially playing her mother on Laugh-in, which is the part Hudson, too, was meant to play. And Nicole Kidman doesn't look as much like her Botox robot-self. And I have nothing bad to say about Marion Cottillard because I love her. And then there's Sophia Loren who still has the best cheek bones I've ever seen. And, holy fuck, can Penelope Cruz really do that with her leg? I'm a believer.

Nine is scheduled for a November 25, 2009 release.

Anna Verna

Posted 2009-05-21 13:17:41

Nine was simply one of the best musicals ever made. Ever. I converted to Italian after seeing it in New York when it first opened. I've never looked back after that.

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