Nine Lives

Name: Nine Lives
Director: Rodrigo García
Released: 2005

Synopsis

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

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Entertainment Weekly
What could have been a parlor game becomes a surprisingly rich sketchbook, boosted by the work of fine actors.
90
Film Threat
Garcia is a thoughtful filmmaker not only by the group of actors he has gathered, but in remembering that there has been and will be people watching his movie.
90
The Hollywood Reporter
A bold film both in its storytelling strategies and its filmmaking logistics.
90
The New York Times
Together, however, they add up to a film that may be the closest movies have come to the cinematic equivalent of a collection of Chekhov short stories.
90
Los Angeles Times
That rare episode film that actually accrues a cumulative power and doesn't merely proceed from one segment to the next.
80
Variety
Though the episodic structure results in a whole not quite equal to some of its parts, pic is an unusually tender, perceptive character study buoyed by stellar performances from a who's who of talented (and many underused) actresses.
75
New York Daily News
A couple of the stories don't quite accomplish what Rodrigo intends, but most are poignant, disturbing, and superbly acted.
67
Christian Science Monitor
The uneven Nine Lives has an impressive cast, but the best section features the great Mexican actress Elpidio Carrillo as a prison inmate kept from her child.