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There is a rumour (started here and now by me) that when the star-studded cast were shown the rushes to Rob Marshall’s ‘Nine’ they campaigned vigorously for the title to be changed to NEIN!
For, make no mistake, this movie is a prize turkey of the first order!
Daniel Day Lewis was presumably lured by the chance to swagger about like Marcello Mastroianni and to romp with Penelope Cruz but the cost is that his reputation for choosing his roles astutely now lies in tatters.
Nine is a musical remake of 8½ , a Fellini classic from 1963, and is a movie treatment of a unfathomably successful Broadway show. Lewis was the main reason I wanted to see it , I certainly wasn’t drawn by the prospect of another musical from Marshall, whose ‘Chicago’ I loathed.
It’s hard to know where to start with this catalogue of woeful and offensively bad movie-making. Continue reading
