Bitter Moon (Blu-ray) PG
A kinky voyage with a full head of steam.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 19 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: May 21, 2019
- Originally Released: 1992
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant & Kristin Scott Thomas | |
Performer: | Victor Banerjee & Stockard Channing | |
Directed by | Roman Polanski | |
Edited by | Hervé de Luze | |
Screenplay by | Roman Polanski, Gérard Brach & John Brownjohn | |
Composition by | Vangelis | |
Produced by | Roman Polanski | |
Director of Photography: | Tonino Delli Colli | |
Executive Production by | Robert Benmussa |
Entertainment Reviews:
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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Variety
Rating: 3.5/5 --
This material obviously appeals to his sense of mischief, which remains alive and well.
New York Times
Rating: 2/5 --
Deliberately provocative, infuriatingly melodramatic, this is a film that begs not to be taken seriously, and requires a ready suspension of moral discernment for maximum enjoyment.
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Empire Magazine
Bitter Moon is half-digested and grossly undramatised, a loop-tape of explanations and voiceover; the longer it goes on, the more it drains our interest away.
Independent (UK)
Rich and darkly disturbing, it's also wickedly entertaining.
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Time Out
Recklessly perched on the edge of the ludicrous, this examination of a destructive erotic passion unfolds with an unsettling mixture of steam and mordant iron.
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Newsweek
Polanski's study of a marriage based on obsession, lust and cruelty was panned by critics as tasteless pornography, but there's a rich fascination in the film's openly voyeuristic, lurid extremes.
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Film4
Product Description:
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(Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) encounter American expatriate Oscar (Peter Coyote), a wheelchair-bound unpublished novelist traveling with his young French wife, Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner).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 aside to recount in exhibitionistic detail the sordid tale of their once-passionate love affair, which gradually deteriorated into a series of increasingly sadistic and degrading sex games. In flashback scenes, it soon becomes clear that the self-serving Oscar represents the corrosive element in the couple's relationship--though the tables will eventually be turned. BITTER MOON provides several jarring twists, the last of which is especially unexpected, and no one escapes unscathed from this titillating yet excruciating menage-à-quatre. Polanski's erotic melodrama received mixed reviews but earned ardent praise from fans who appreciated the filmmaker's return to the themes (first treated in 1962's KNIFE IN THE WATER) of dark sexuality and thinly veiled violence in intimate relationships.