Fans of the Madchester movie that was '24 Hour Party People' can expect another indie affair music wise from the latest film from its director Michael Winterbottom, although even the most raucous nights at the Hacienda probably don't compare with the subject matter of new film 'Nine Songs'.
The new movie, which features music from Franz Ferdinand, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Dandy Warhols and Super Furry Animals among others, is being described as "the most sexually explicit in the history of UK cinema" featuring, as it does, scenes of oral sex and ejaculation. The explicit sex scenes are intercut with scenes of the bands playing live - making it a bit like channel hopping between 4Music and the Playboy channel.
Following its screening at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday night, Winterbottom told the Guardian: "I had been thinking for a while about the fact that most cinematic love stories miss out on the physical relationship, and if it is indicated at all everyone knows it is fake. Books deal explicitly with sex, as they do with any other subject. Cinema has been extremely conservative and prudish. I wanted to go to the opposite extreme and show a relationship only through sex. Part of the point of making the film was to say, 'What's wrong with showing sex?'"
It remains to be seen if British censors demand any cuts before allowing a UK release.