Yes, there's too much to mention. Good thing it's a pleasure to keep up with these women, even when their superior acting is needed to overcome the inferior material.
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10/14/05
Nine Lives (2005)
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Reviews Counted:83
Fresh:62
Rotten:21
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Nine Lives is bolstered by a strong cast and features many insightful glimpses into the lives of women.
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Director Rodrigo Garcia has become a master of short film anthologies, with this, his third venture into the genre. His previous work in this field--THINGS YOU CAN TELL JUST BY LOOKING AT HER... [More]
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Elpidia Carrillo, Andrew Borba, Kathy Baker
Director: Rodrigo García
Reviews for Nine Lives
The snaky cinematography pulls you through even when the writing doesn't, and the best performances keep you hoping that you'll feel the next one or the one after that just as powerfully.
10/28/05
The cumulative effect of the rigorously controlled and purposive camera style adds up in the end to a collective portrait of womankind that is greater than the sum of its parts.
10/27/05
A beautiful freak: full of wonderful moments, but constrained by the rigid novelty of its structure.
10/27/05
The moments that Garcia has chosen to observe are unforgettable, the women -- played by an ensemble of actresses at the top of their respective games -- indelible.
11/03/05
The writing here is especially eloquent -- Garcia is the son of novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- suffused with maxims that somehow transcend the maudlin.
10/14/05
The cast steps up, embracing the chance to exercise acting chops normally limited to live theater. Most do so resoundingly, but two stand out: Robin Wright Penn and Jason Isaacs.
10/28/05
Nine Lives does contains a few tedious acting-school-exercise moments. Yet the accumulated power of the vignettes packs a wallop.
09/12/05
Nine Lives had me tense, engaged, sometimes disgusted, sometimes moved, and always interested. Garcia is an ingenious and eloquent storyteller.
09/27/06
[Garcia] leaves you thinking deeply about these people. And leaves you wanting more.
11/04/05
The stories resonant with a certain realness, a few stand out as exceptionally powerful. The downside is just as you're really getting involved in one, they move to the next.
10/28/05
They make a persuasive case that, as one character says, 'Each woman is a universe.'
10/27/05
The degree of our interest may vary, but Garcia maintains a very assured control with his fine, entrenched cast.
10/28/05
The stories are sketches, often without resolution, and while individual segments succeed admirably, taken together the portraits are a fitful match.
10/01/07
You keep waiting for the weak link in the chain, or the half-hearted performance, but they never ever come.
12/06/05
Highly variable and something of a technical tour-de-force.
12/31/05
...a remarkably powerful little film.
02/23/06
Should be shown in film school and acting classes to teach how to create the perfect scene.
10/12/05
Some parts are stronger than others, but as a fleshed-out artistic vision, Nine Lives works remarkably well.
12/31/05
The performances are all superb despite the fact that the direction is haphazard and the super-16 film makes the whole thing look rather cheesy.
11/15/05
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