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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

12,258

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(Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) encounter American expatriate Oscar (Peter Coyote), a wheelchair-bound unpublished novelist traveling with his young French wife, Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner).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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"Another uncompromising Polanski study of the ways people torture each other. Read full review	POS
United States	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"	NEU
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"After 36 years of making movies, Polanski may be off his creative rocker, but he's still having fun"	POS
United States	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"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Deliberately provocative, infuriatingly melodramatic, this is a film that begs not to be taken seriously"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Polanski has great wicked fun with sex, love, cruelty, books, movies and, of course, himself."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The word 'lurid' was coined to describe films like this"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"Rich and darkly disturbing, it's also wickedly entertaining"	POS
United States	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"	POS
United States	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"	NEG

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