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Bitter Moon

Bitter Moon (Lunes de fiel)

1992

Roman Polanski

Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas ...

7.1

12,266

Drama On a cruise to Istanbul in celebration of their seventh wedding anniversary, uptight British couple Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) encounter American expatriate Oscar (Peter Coyote), a wheelchair-bound unpublished novelist traveling with his young French wife, Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner). Nigel is immediately drawn to the sexy but distant Mimi, and Oscar, sensing the other man’s fascination with his wife, takes him ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Noel Murray AV Club	"Another uncompromising Polanski study of the ways people torture each other. Read full review
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Whatever its flaws, this rudely kinky dissection of a sadomasochistic love affair is, in a sense, the Polanski film we’ve been waiting for"
		Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"After 36 years of making movies, Polanski may be off his creative rocker, but he's still having fun"
		Jay Carr Boston Globe	"'Bitter Moon' would be a camp classic if it weren't so dispiriting watching Roman Polanski cannibalize and then finally parody himself into narrative and artistic collapse"
		Ian Nathan Empire	"Deliberately provocative, infuriatingly melodramatic, this is a film that begs not to be taken seriously"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Polanski has great wicked fun with sex, love, cruelty, books, movies and, of course, himself."
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The word 'lurid' was coined to describe films like this"
		Geoff Andrew Time Out	"Rich and darkly disturbing, it's also wickedly entertaining"
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"'Bitter Moon' is, by any reasonable standard, just awful (...) [It] gives the kind of performance that can only be explained by the fact that she is the director's wife. The good news: Mr. Polanski seems to know all this"
		Derek Elley Variety	"Strong playing by topliner Peter Coyote can't compensate for a script that's all over the map and a tone that veers from outre comedy to erotic game-playing"

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