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9 Songs (2004)

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• Margot Stilley never wanted to be credited in the film because of the un-simulated, explicit sex scenes. She asked the director to refer to her in interviews as "Lisa", the name of her character in the film.
  
  
• This was the first film featuring explicit sex scenes to receive a certificate in the Republic of Ireland.
  
  
• The first sexually explicit film to be directly awarded a French mainstream certificate (and not the "X classification" created in 1975 for "pornographic or violence-inciting movies").
  
  

• According to the "Variety" review, the transfer of the film, which was shot in DV, was done by photographing a digital projection of the movie on a white wall, to create a negative from which prints for release could be made.
  
  
• The sex scenes were shot with only the two actors, the director, the cameraman, and the soundman on the set.
  
  
• The two leads only had three days to get acquainted before filming.
  
  
• Director Winterbottom shot over 200 hours of digital video.
  
  
• 'Kieran OBrien and Margo Stilley did not communicate with each other between filming so that their off-screen relationship would not affect the one they had on screen.
  
  
• Shooting time for the film was projected as ten weeks. The cast and crew ended up shooting for five months.
  
  

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