Bitter Moon
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Movie Reviews of Bitter Moon
Movie Review: An ending you'll never forget
Summary: 5 Stars
I find that the true measure of depth for a movie is evident in its' projected empathy. If you're looking for a touchy-feel good movie this definitely is not it. Bitter Moon emphasizes the worst in humanity and provokes a guttural disgust for the characters played by Peter Coyote and Emmanuel Seigner. Hugh Grant and Kristen Scott Thomas represent the pawnish almost innocent characters within Oscar and Mimi's sadistic game of emotional chess.
I would never identify this movie as a "Black Comedy" but more of an erotic drama dealing with the dark side of the human libido. You're drawn into the relationship of Oscar and Mimi as outsiders listening to the story of their life. Along with Hugh Grant's character, you listen to their story ...from the inception of their lusty affair to their tortured life where the only reason that they exist as a married couple is in a vain attempt to limit their damage to the rest of humanity. Two people bonded together in a never ending battle to inflict torture upon the other...where everyone else is pawns and collateral damage. The content is definitely not for kids and not for the timid.
If you enjoyed Glen Close and John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaison's or the War of the Roses, then this is a film for you! With one of the best endings I've seen in a film dating back to the early 90's...I doubt you'll be disappointed.
Movie Review: A memorable drama about sex as politics
Summary: 5 Stars
Extremely well made, extremely well acted, extremely intense and disturbing, and extremely conscious of areas of the sexual psyche that I'd never seen so honestly explored in a movie. According to Polanski, it is not love and hate which are opposite, but love and indifference. Obsessive sex gives way, at least between the two lovers of Bitter Moon, to a hatred as savage as cold-blooded murder or all-out war.
These extremities of love and hate work themselves out in a game of power and manipulation, and it remains the only vehicle by which these two can merge with one another so as to lose both their independence and the rest of their inhibitions and illusions. In the end, they become so bound up in their mutual need that the sex itself is no longer central. They might as well be prisoners lashed forever to the same stake, learning actually to enjoy the various torments that the other is able to inflict. Freud thought similarly that all sexual love was ultimately a form of masochism--identification with a partner whom one has caused to suffer. These questions are essential as long as the blood continues to throb in us; and, whether or not we find Polanski's story credible (I do), any thinking person would recognize it as a serious attempt to define who we humans are, both as rutting mammals and as something more.
Movie Review: Less than 3 stars?!! Madness....
Summary: 5 Stars
I was compelled to write this review based on the handfull of negative reviews (like the one below). I think this movie is an absolute gem. First off, taking a step back, this movie isn't about two good people that meet and fall in love. I believe this movie is about what happens when two very base, very bored, and largely devoid of virtue collide. It's about the danger in irrational immoral entanglement (again, this is just my opinion). You see, the sex scenes (some of them anyway) are meant to be laughable. These two hit bottom together and reach (what Peter Coyote, the male partner calls) "sexual bankruptcy"....right in front of your eyes, they get slaughtered by their own insane urges! Brilliant, strange, interesting, depressing, important (especially if you're prone to confuse urges with love).
Peter Coyote gives an amazing performance, Polanski offered up his own wife (Emmanuelle Seigner) as the temptress (c'mon, you've got to give him at least one star for having enough love for this film to direct his own wife through sex scenes).
If you haven't seen Bitter Moon, don't miss this film. I think it raises important questions and warnings about certain popular behavior (or at least tendencies) in relationships. All the while being entertaining, and at times utterly shocking.
Hope this was helpful.
Movie Review: A Journey into Obsession
Summary: 5 Stars
Ever loved someone so much you just burnt out......I think this is a fabulous movie which takes you into a journey of desire and obsession. Stars Roman Polanski's wife who is also in Frantic with Harrison Ford and Also The Ninth Gate with Johhny Depp. Emmanuelle Sieger is a fantastic actress though I've not seen her in french film of which she carved her carear. She brings a unique sexual tention to any plot sweet girl, angel or devils mistress. I digress. This film has very sexual overtone. And pushes your imagination rather than being blatent in its delivery. I first saw this movie as a VHS maybe ten years ago. Yet i enjoyed so much I had to get a copy I searched everywhere for and finally got a copy through amazon. Hugh grant plays his normal bubbling brit but iI like this because the woman in the movie show him for what he is...Well the character he plays... but the best Character is Peter Coyote. A frustrated writer trying to break it as a writer....I love how he is like a narrator and verbably telling the story of how he end up in a wheel chair and the love story of his wife...You know he's supposed to be a writer so his style is both shocking and poetic.
This is a rare and very enjoyable movie twist too.....
Movie Review: Bitter Moon Casts a Bright Light
Summary: 5 Stars
"Bitter Moon" directed by the amazing Roman Polanski is gorgeously photographed, impeccably acted by one and all, magnificently scored and with a story that will knock your socks off, both literally and figuratively! This may well be Polanski's best film. It most probably is his most personal.
Watch it with knowing as little as possible about it. Be drawn into it the way you would be drawn into a carnival sideshow. The sideshow here is about sex...and love...and life...and, of course, death. This is a movie about passion and carnal questions and questings and the sado-masochistic impulses that work the puppet strings of the human race. It is a comedy and a tragedy, simultaneously. It is over-the-top and below-the-belt, simultaneously. It is arguably the best film ever made about the male/female sexual and romantic dynamic and dichotomy.
"Bitter Moon" does, indeed, cast a bright light on the deepest yearnings and burnings of men and women.