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Plot: Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
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Ratings:

	6.7/10 Votes: 6,919
	76% | RottenTomatoes
	80/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 58 Popularity: 6.838 | TMDB

Reviews:

The Most Beautiful Movie!
I saw Nine Lives this evening at the Virginia Film Festival – both producers (Julie Lynn and Kelly Thomas) were also there, along with Sissy Spacek, Kathy Baker, and Rodrigo Garcia, for a short talk after the screening.

This is a gorgeous film. It’s both strong and delicate, treating the interwoven nine lives of the title with uncompromising authenticity. Each portion is preceded by a woman’s name, the name of the woman focused on in that section – and then we dive into what Garcia describes as “looking through the window into someone’s house”, the examination of nearly fifteen minutes of that life, each done in one take. Yes, just ONE take — the camera follows and weaves about the characters as in a dance. The result is moving, powerful, luminous.

The nine lives are not so intertwined as to be confusing – instead, we occasionally recognize faces: “ah, that’s the cop from before”, “oh, she was the mom in the other story”.

What a pleasure it was to watch a film in a huge, sold-out theater where the audience was so rapt that for many minutes at a time the only sound was the film’s dialogue. And what dialogue! Garcia’s touch is determined, yet infinitely tender. Each major character is treated with kindness and truth. From the teenage girl called “the heart of the house”, to the pregnant woman who unexpectedly runs into her ex-husband, to the frightened, angry woman about to undergo surgery, all show us what they are, how they are underneath – while trying to camouflage themselves from others. They deal with loss, with anger, with connection (I was reminded of E. M. Forster: “Only connect”), and, ultimately, with acceptance.

Yes, all the stories involve strong feeling, but humans can be very funny – at times the whole audience broke up in laughter! There’s not a bad, mediocre, or tired performance in this film, and that includes the smaller roles. If I had to pick one actor as most lambent, however, it would be Robin Wright Penn. She is nearly transparent with emotions fleeting, transitory, erupting and reappearing, as she struggles not to reveal herself.

Go see Nine Lives. It’s a movie to savor and rejoice in. These days, that’s pretty unusual . . . but Nine Lives holds hope for our journey toward possibility.

A grace and beauty that touches the heart
With one emotionally draining story rapidly following the other, viewing Nine Lives may be the cinematic equivalent of listening to all of Beethoven’s symphonies without a pause. The film, written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia, son of Cuban author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, depicts key moments in the lives of nine women in emotional upheaval. Shot in only eighteen days, this powerful small budget film brings together such outstanding performers as Cissy Spacek, Elpido Carrillo, Robin Wright Penn, Amy Brenneman, Kathy Baker, Holly Hunter, Glenn Close, and Lisa Gay Hamilton and each are magnificent in their small roles. Occasionally, actors from one story reappear in supporting roles in another.

Each story is separate but all are loosely connected by an underlying theme of emotional loss, each segment dramatizing how our relationships can be both solid and fragile at the same time. A happily married pregnant woman goes shopping in a supermarket late at night and meets a former boyfriend and realizes that she will always carry the profound connection they once shared. A teenage girl acts as a buffer between her disabled father and her overburdened mother but suppresses her own feelings. A young woman returns after an absence of many years to confront her abusive stepfather. A phone goes dead when a women prisoner attempts to talk through a window to her young daughter.

In other stories, a woman confronts her anger about undergoing a mastectomy while her husband tries to comfort her in the hospital. A mother visits a cemetery with her little girl that brings to life memories from the past. Shot in one continuous take lasting from ten to fourteen minutes, each characters past is a blank and the future is left to our imagination, but there is never a feeling of incompleteness. Though the dialog is introspective, it is not overly literary and each piece has a grace and beauty that touches the heart. Awarded the Golden Leopard at the Film Festival in 2005, the stories in Nine Lives last only a few moments, but their emotional richness can last a lifetime.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 55 min (115 min) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama
Director Rodrigo García
Writer Rodrigo García
Actors Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Glenn Close
Country United States, Mexico
Awards 9 wins & 10 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 16 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (blow-up)