Bitter Moon
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Movie Reviews of Bitter Moon
Movie Review: A FUN ROMP THROUGH FEVERED IMAGINATION
Summary: 4 Stars
Bitter Moon is surely not for everyone. It's one of Polanski's audacious ones -- he seemed to be far beyond concern over matters of taste. And Emmanuelle Seigner -- easily the pivot of this bizarre tale -- never seemed miscast in a role as a voracious seductress with black widow tendencies, whose amusement is to blind men in the headlights of her sexuality, and step on the gas. The word "promiscuous" was coined to describe films like this. Like all stories dealing with the extremes of sex, it arrives at moments when we can barely prevent ourselves from laughing (e.g., S&M combines humorless scenarios with absurd choreography.)
It is the easiest thing in the world to criticize movies like Bitter Moonshaking one's head wearily and complaining about the director's zany imagination. And of course a lot of it is wretched excess.
But Polanski directs it without compromise or apology, and it's a funny thing how so many reviewers may condescend to it, but while they're watching it you could hear a pin drop.
An enjoyable one, in a whacky could-they-really-do-that sort of a way.
Movie Review: A Brilliant Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Bitter moon was quite a different movie. I enjoyed watching it and have in fact watched it many times again, I somehow feel that the story line-up is superb and the director has done justice to the script. The four main cast's have given a great performance and lived up to the expectation. Hugh grant looked great as usual, and Peter Coyote was awesome ... The movie presents the pendulum-like swing of the dynamic between Oscar and Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner)-- from obsession and love to dependence and hatred -- it is just fascinating.
Overall an enjoyable movie ... should suit the people who have the taste for soft movies ( not for the die hard action movie fans ).
Happy watching !!
Movie Review: A Daring and Original Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie in an involving story about a couple of prudes(Hugh Grant and Kristen Scott Thomas) meeting up with a wild couple on a cruise and hearing all the lurid detials about their lives. There are some really interesting twists in this movie. The story proves to hold your attention throughout. For a one of a kind movie check this one out.Movie Review: 1994 Polanski
Summary: 4 Stars
Somewhat different than Polanski's other films, a Black Comedy, which focuses more upon telling a story, than it does, anything. It sucks the viewer in, just like Nigel, played by Hugh Grant. The subject matter of the film also doesn't take it self so seriously, which is why the film works on that level.Movie Review: Be happy with what you have...
Summary: 4 Stars
I don't know why, but I am mesmerized by this movie... The story drwas you in, although shocking at times and incredibly cruel. The moral of the whole thing is twofold: the grass is always greener and the more you dig, the dirtier it gets.