Bitter Moon
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Movie Reviews of Bitter Moon
Movie Review: Riveting
Summary: 4 Stars
I could not stop watching this movie. Not because of the erotica but to see how it turned out. What would unfold. I was not prepared to rate it very highly but darnit! I enjoyed this well done movie with an unusual tale to tell.Movie Review: Disturbing intrigue
Summary: 4 Stars
The only question left at the end of this effective film's explicit emotional savagery is: who is cruelest?Movie Review: Extremely disturbing film
Summary: 3 Stars
Hugh Grant delivers a surprising performance in Bitter Moon, a sexually perverse movie.
Nigel and Fiona, played by Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott, are a married couple that set out to take a cruise vacation of a life time, to India of all places.
The couple meets a young beauty by the name of Mimi, played by Emmanuelle Seigner, who seems to be ill by the voyage. Fiona takes her to the ladies room and they strike a friendship of sorts. They soon meet Mimi's husband, who is on a wheel chair, paralyzed from the waist down.
Peter coyote plays the part of the husband, a man that seems desperate for conversation and engages Nigel, who out of respect and pity, starts to listen to the man's stories and soon finds himself spell bound by the eroticism of the stories he tells.
The stories center on how he met Mimi, how their relationship started, developed and progressed to what it is today. As the hours go by you will find the stories so malevolent in nature, so sadistic, that you can not help but hope it all ends well, and yet you know the end shall shock viewers.
Definitely not the type of film we expected because we have gotten used to comedy when we purchase a Hugh Grant movie. Without a doubt, Bitter Moon is an extremely emotionally disturbing film.
Movie Review: Minor Polanski
Summary: 3 Stars
Bitter Moon is minor Polanski, an overlong but enjoyable black comedy about sexual obsession. It's not particularly deep, but it is occasionally very funny (the poodle and the toaster are particular highlights), with Polanski constantly aware how close to comedy the sexual act is in all its more desperate variations. Perhaps its this sense of pervading black humor amid the emotional sadism that prevents the finale from having the sting it's aiming for, but it's an interesting voyage.Movie Review: Disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this DVD based upon the customer reviews, so having seen the film, I have to put on record the dissenting review. The entire formula plays out as a man's sexual fantasy and cynical POV that initial perfect love is necessarily obsessive and therefore has to run dry, perhaps abruptly, like switching off a lightbulb (seems a less than mature POV). The object of desire is the director's real-life wife, so that actually tells us more about him (the director) than it lends any real-life credibility to the proceedings. Hugh Grant gives a restrained yet appropriately edgy performance, the best in the film, though the leading lady is appropriate lovely, though never comes off as hard-edged as she needs to be, for the latter scenes. Coyote is irritating like the Gollum character. If you like this type of movie ordinarily, I would recommend the more extreme COMFORT OF STRANGERS which takes place in Venice; otherwise rent this movie first, rather than risk wasting your money on a purchase.