Nine Lives (2005 film)
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| Directed by | Rodrigo García |
| Produced by | Julie Lynn |
| Written by | Rodrigo García |
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Sissy Spacek Glenn Close Holly Hunter Lisa Gay Hamilton Kathy Baker Amanda Seyfried Amy Brenneman Robin Wright Penn Aidan Quinn K Callan Dakota Fanning Ian McShane Mary Kay Place Molly Parker Sydney Tamiia Poitier Elpidia Carrillo Jason Isaacs Miguel Sandoval Joe Mantegna |
| Music by | Ed Shearmur |
| Cinematography | Xavier Pérez Grobet |
| Edited by | Andrea Folprecht |
| Distributed by | Magnolia Pictures |
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115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $500,000 |
| Box office | $1,562,923 |
Nine Lives is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Rodrigo García. The screenplay, an example of hyperlink cinema, relates nine short, loosely intertwined tales with nine different women at their cores. Their themes include parent-child relationships, fractured love, adultery, illness, and death. Similar to García's previous work, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, it is a series of overlapping , each one running about the same length and told in a single, unbroken take, featuring an ensemble cast.
The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005 and was shown at the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Locarno Film Festival, where it won the Golden Leopard for Best Film and the entire cast was awarded the Bronze Leopard for Best Actress, before going into limited release in the US in October. It opened on seven screens and earned $28,387 in its opening weekend. It eventually grossed $478,830 in the US and $1,084,093 in foreign markets for a total worldwide box office of $1,562,923.
Stephen Holden of The New York Times described it as "a film that may be the closest movies have come to the cinematic equivalent of a collection of Chekhov short stories. The film's reward for intense concentration is a feeling of deep empathy and connection. For once, you don't harbor the uneasy suspicion of having been emotionally manipulated ... Mr. García has made a film that could be described as radically realistic ... In its subtle, understated performances, the actors vanish into characters who behave like ordinary people observed through one-way glass."
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said, "Rodrigo Garcia ... the son of the novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez ... has the same love for his characters, and although his stories are all (except for one) realistic, he shares his father's appreciation for the ways lives interweave and we touch each other even if we are strangers. A movie like this, with the appearance of new characters and situations, focuses us; we watch more intently, because it is important what happens."
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