NINE

US / ITA
2009
1hr 58mins
Dir: Rob Marshall
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis and Judi Dench

A famous film director struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives as he engages in a number of dramatic relationships

This elaborate musical drama is based on Arthur Kopit’s book for the 1982 musical of the same name, but it received mixed reviews and at times is difficult to watch. It features one scene at Wansford station on the Nene Valley Railway with a train formed of the line’s Danish State Railway’s coaching stock in the platform. The station represents one in Italy and the coaches have been branded accordingly with FS (Italian State Railways) initials.

This is Wansford station, on the Nene Valley Railway. The Danish coaching stock with FS branding, the ornate station footbridge, the Jacobean station in ashlar stone, and the solitary palm tree, alludes to the impression of an Italian station remarkably well.
This is an atmospheric shot that is looking the other way on the platform.