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Bitter Moon [Import]

Hugh Grant (Actor), Kristin Scott Thomas (Actor), Roman Polanski (Director) | Rated: R (Restricted) | Format: DVD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
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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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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.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing Jan 24 2004
By Terran
Format:DVD
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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Like a train wreck Mar 20 2011
By Diana B.
Format:DVD
A good movie overall. Dark humour. Dark in general. Something I would recommend watching once but not a movie I would watch again. I found it too disturbing. I gave my copy away.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Feb 28 2007
By Jubejube
Format:DVD
Sure, it may be corny in some ways, and sometimes unbelievable, but do we watch movies for it's accurate portrayal of reality, or to stir our imaginations? Perhaps a little of both, with a little of both being sacrificed for the other in the process. I found Bitter Moon to provide an exaggerated portrayal of the dark sides of human sexuality, and the shallowness and selfishness of 'love'. It tells a story about how a couple fall completely in love with one another, and how it turns into a sour, bitter, but codependent experience over time. The story unfolds as a man on a cruise ship (Peter Coyote) meets up with a stranger at the bar (Hugh Grant) and ends up telling him the story of how he and his wife fell in love. Grant's character ends up falling for this man's wife due to his own lack of excitement in his own marriage, as the story is being told.

I agree with one of the other reviews, in that many will criticize the movie, yet they won't be able to tear their eyes away the whole time. I think this movie gives an insight into the darker side of human nature when it comes to love and attachment, done in an entertaining way.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Accccaaip güzel bi film
Yaw yýllar önce tv de seyretmiþtim, bi daha da yayýnlamadýlar. Çok þaane bi film harbiden. Þimdi de DVD olarak alacam. Read more
Published on April 22 2004 by ahmet
5.0 out of 5 stars Less than 3 stars?!! Madness....
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. Read more

Published on April 21 2004 by Christian Hunter
1.0 out of 5 stars Atrocious
I admire director/actor Roman Polanski very much; not only because he can be a consumate filmaker and has made some of the more interesting films of the late 20th. Read more
Published on Mar 20 2004 by "esscee6"
4.0 out of 5 stars A FUN ROMP THROUGH FEVERED IMAGINATION
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. Read more
Published on Feb 27 2004 by Shashank Tripathi
4.0 out of 5 stars Whoa!!
This is probably one of the most depraved movies I have ever seen. It's a Roman Polanski film. (I usually have high regard for his films, so it's no surprise to me that I "enjoyed"... Read more
Published on Feb 18 2004 by Fractal Rock
4.0 out of 5 stars A Brilliant Movie
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... Read more
Published on Feb 5 2004 by Deependra Bisht
5.0 out of 5 stars "Bitter Moon" - so horrifying......so hilarious
...Roman Polanski. I saw "Bitter Moon" in 1994 at a St. Louis theatre, and I was rewarded with the sort of transcendent hilarity for which I had longed. Read more
Published on Dec 1 2003 by Mona Lisa Smile
5.0 out of 5 stars One Hell of a Ride
Bitter Moon is one hell of a ride. A sizzling hotpot of[]jealousy, desire, revenge, wanton cruelty and lust. And that's just the opening credits. Read more
Published on Oct 21 2003 by Mons
5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining but not disgusting,Romantic but not moronic
I think this movie is really very entertaining . But I don't know why very few people know about it . I'm honored to be the first one here to write a review, and a promotion. Read more
Published on Oct 5 2003 by dinu
5.0 out of 5 stars Still Sweet After All These Years ...
Quick synopsis: Kinky couple on a cruise ship looking to entice another couple into their twisted game of sex,love, and deceit (or is it a game ?)... Read more
Published on Aug 7 2003 by Armando M. Mesa
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