Bitter Moon (1992)

• Year: 1992
• Released: 18 Mar 1994
• Country: France, United Kingdom
• Adwords: 1 win & 2 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104779/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Bitter_Moon
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/bitter-moon
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, French
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
• Runtime: 139 min
• Writer: Pascal Bruckner, Roman Polanski, Gérard Brach
• Director: Roman Polanski
• Cast: Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner
• Keywords: eroticism, married couple, voyeurism, wheelchair, marriage crisis,

	7.2/10
	62/100
	63% – Critics
	80% – Audience

Bitter Moon Storyline

Nigel (Hugh Grant) is an English perfect gentleman, married to equally respectable Fiona (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas). On a cruise heading for India, they meet a highly unconventional couple, American unpublished would-be literary celebrity Oscar (Peter Coyote), in a wheelchair, and his much younger Parisian wife, Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner). Oscar insists in telling his unsettling life story to Nigel, who is too polite to refuse, although its gory content, shamelessly explicit details, and foul Yankee language rather disgust the well-bred Brit, yet becomes also fascinated. Oscar tells how he found by chance in Mimi, a willing partner for sex, ever pushing their boundaries. When he tires of spiralling passionate devotion to her, the tables turn: Mimi begs Oscar to stay with her at any price, and gets what she bargained for, sadistic scorn and abuse till she’s a mere shadow of her former self, yet is finally abandoned on a flight to Martinique. Later, Oscar has a car accident, and Mimi returns to Paris to make sure he is condemned to a wheelchair for life, this time utterly dependent on her, no longer free to choose accepting her abuse, yet they get married. Meanwhile, Fiona tires of waiting for Nigel during Oscar’s story sessions and spends time with flirtatious Italian Dado (Luca Vellani). During the New Year’s Eve party, things come to a surprisingly real and personal closure, not in the least for Nigel.

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Compelling, delightful film!

This film is utterly compelling – it will have you glued to the screen. It’s about 2 hours and 15 minutes long, yet it never loses its grip. Although there are a few “funny” moments, you can never be sure whether they were intentional or not. The pacing is slow but wonderfully methodical. But what really makes this picture delightful is the level of the acting of the male stars. While the female leads are also wonderful, the cynical Coyote and, especially, the charmingly shy Grant (his performance here is underrated) provide two different ways for the viewer to enter the story and their interplay is offbeat and endlessly entertaining. This is methodical, first-rate filmmaking by Polanski.

sexual gamesmanship

British couple Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) and Nigel Dobson (Hugh Grant) are on a cruise to India. They encounter Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner) in despair. Her crippled American husband Oscar (Peter Coyote) recounts their story. He was living off of his family trust fund in Paris trying to be a writer when he fell for her. Their relationship suffered ups and downs. He became emotionally abusive until his accident. The tables are turned on the helpless Oscar.

The basic structure leads me to question Oscar’s story from the start. Honestly, it wouldn’t have surprised me if Oscar gets up and walks away at the end of the movie. In that way, the past isn’t quite as compelling as I wonder about its validity all the way through. I would have liked more intrigue on the ship. Hugh Grant could be made to do some compromising positions. I do like the cat and mouse game over the differing levels of sexual adventurism. The movie is mesmerizing from start to finish.

An Unconventional Story, About Relationship, Moral, Hypocrisy, Behavior, Love and Hate, In Another Masterpiece of Roman Polanski

The British Nigel (Hugh Grant) and his wife Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) are celebrating the seventh anniversary of their marriage in a cruise to Istanbul and Bombay. While in the trip, the American cripple and frustrated writer Oscar (Peter Coyote) gets close to Nigel, and invites him to listen to his unconventional love and hate story with his French wife Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner). Oscar tells how he met Mimi in Paris and all their relationship, including details of their sexual life, along the past years. Meanwhile, Nigel feels a great attraction for the sexy and gorgeous Mimi, in a story with tragic consequences.

‘Bitter Moon’ has been released in Brazil on DVD this week, and yesterday I watched it for the fifth or sixth time, since it is one of my favorites movies ever. This story, about relationship, moral, hypocrisy, behavior, love and hate, fascinates me and shakes my emotions. I really believe that ‘Bitter Moon’, Peter Coyote and Emmanuelle Seigner have been not nominated to the Oscar because of the problems of Roman Polanski with the American Justice. Emmanuelle Seigner has her best role and performance in his career playing Mimi, an adorable French woman, very much in love with Oscar, who poisons and destroys her. Their love increases, reaches the top and crosses all the boundaries of a sexual relationship, including those ‘accepted by a moralist and hypocrite society’ (represented by Nigel), questioning how long a love can last, making Oscar bored of Mimi. The problem is that their relationship was supported by sex only, without friendship and respect, basic parameters for a long-term everyday life of a married couple. Hugh Grant is perfect in the role of a typical British man and symbol of a hypocrite society. And Kristin Scott Thomas has a minor, but very important part in the plot, playing a sexually repressed woman due to the behavior of her husband, who released the chains of her repression. The wonderful music of Vangelis and a soundtrack of nice songs, which includes a Brazilian pop song, conclude this masterpiece. My vote is ten.

Title (Brazil): ‘Lua de Fel’ (‘Bitter Moon’)