Bitter Moon

Bitter Moon
by Roman Polanski

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Actor: Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Peter Coyote, Victor Banerjee
Director: Roman Polanski
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Roman Polanski
Producer: Alain Sarde
Producer: Robert Benmussa
Writer: G?rard Brach
Writer: Jeff Gross
Writer: John Brownjohn
Writer: Pascal Bruckner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 139 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-06-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video

Movie Reviews of Bitter Moon

Movie Review: Uniquely Entertaining yet mind provoking!
Summary: 4 Stars

The story line is twisted to put it mildly but never boring for a second and interestingly making for great conversation after viewing...

I will not divulge any of the plot (too much has already been spilled in other reviews) and while the plot is amazingly thought out and delivered by Scorsese, the plot really does not matter as much as the characters and their stories.

What matters more in my mind is the characters (all brilliantly acted) who show sides that are deeply engraved in all of us (thankfully in less extreme denominations in most cases). The movie take the obsession, anger, feeling of guilt, revenge, pity, dependence, lust to the extreme but with a bit of soul searching we can relate to the underlying urges and feelings and if we allow it, the movie leaves one thinking afterwards remembering our own experiences and our own behavior in difficult situations over the years.

No one can ever claim this movie did not touch something in them and even its harshest critics are spellbound to the screen throughout the movie.

A must see.

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Summary of Bitter Moon

A comtemporary drama about an American in Paris who falls in love with a young French woman and how their relationship deteriorates into sexual extremes.

Unquestionably one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, The Pianist) turns his talents to the realm of sexual perversity and its emotional toll. While on a Mediterranean cruise, Nigel and Fiona (Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott Thomas) find a young French woman named Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner) crying in a bathroom. Mimi's paraplegic American husband Oscar (Peter Coyote) forces Nigel to listen to how Oscar and Mimi fell in love--as well as how they discovered kinky erotic games and finally arrived at a curdled, mutual sadism. Bitter Moon veers erratically from salacious erotica to black comedy to clumsy psychodrama, but individual scenes have a definite punch. Coyote chews the scenery with glee, Seigner (Polanski's wife, adding a hint of lurid autobiography) flounders moodily, and Grant seems miscast, but Scott Thomas gives the movie some actual dignity. --Bret Fetzer

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