Nine (2009 live action film)

Nine is a 2009 musical drama metafilm directed and produced by Rob Marshall. The screenplay, written by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella, is based on Arthur Kopits book for the 1982 musical Nine, which was suggested by Federico Fellinis semiautobiographical film 8. Maury Yeston composed the music and wrote the lyrics for the songs.

Guido Contini is a gifted Italian filmmaker who, at the age of fifty, has developed writers block and urges all the women in his life, alive and dead, to help him with it his mind wanders to his unfinished set, where dozens of dancers and the films leading ladies appear first Claudia Jenssen, his leading lady then his wife Luisa his mistress Carla his costume designer and confidant Lilli his beloved Mamma Stephanie, an American fashion journalist from Vogue and finally Saraghina, a prostitute from his childhood Overture Delle Donne. It is 1965, and at the famous Cinecitt movie studios, in Rome, everyone has questions for Signor Contini.At a press conference at the Hotel Excelsior on the Via Veneto, hes charming and colourful, avoiding any clear answer on his new movie his ninth with producer, Dante, tentatively entitled Italia. Here he meets Stephanie, a Vogue fashion journalist, with whom he begins a flirtation. Escaping the biting probes of the reporters, he creates an elaborate fantasy, which becomes Guidos Song where he explains that he wishes he were young and energetic once again, since his talent was better then. ........

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