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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 3, 2003
Budget GBP 7,000,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
2 hours, 18 minutes
Country France, UK
Studio Canal Plus, Films Alain Sarde, R.P. Productions, Timothy Burrill Productions, TriStar
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Other Titles
• Bitter Moon
• Lunes de fiel
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Genre: Drama, Sea, Black Comedy, Erotic, Revenge, Marriage, Racy, Love Triangle, Infidelity, Gay/Lesbian, Psychodrama, Disturbing, Femme Fatale
Plot: 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(Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) encounter American expatriate Oscar (Peter Coyote), a wheelchair-bound unpublished novelist traveling with his young French wife, Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner).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.
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Gérard Brach
The Name of the Rose, Frantic, Jean de Florette | |
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Vangelis
Blade Runner, Alexander, Chariots of Fire |
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