Bitter Moon (1992) ( Lunes de fiel )

Bitter Moon (1992) (DVD) (*)

$24.99

Original Title: Lunes de fiel
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
134 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1992 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Roman Polanski

Written By:
Roman Polanski
Gérard Brach

Actors:
Peter Coyote ..... Oscar
Emmanuelle Seigner ..... Mimi
Hugh Grant ..... Nigel
Kristin Scott Thomas ..... Fiona
Victor Banerjee ..... Mr. Singh
Sophie Patel ..... Amrita Singh
Patrick Albenque ..... Steward
Smilja Mihailovitch ..... Bridge Player
Leo Eckmann ..... Bridge Player
Luca Vellani ..... Dado
Richard Dieux ..... Partygoer
Danny Wuyts ..... Bandleader
Daniel Dhubert ..... Bus Inspector
Nathalie Galán ..... Girl in Boutique
Eric Gonzales ..... Cook

Synopsis:

Nigel Dobson is an English perfect gentleman, married to equally respectable Fiona. On a cruise heading for India, they meet a highly unconventional couple, American unpublished would-be literary celebrity Oscar, in a wheelchair, and his much younger Parisian wife, Mimi. Oscar insists to tell his unsettling life story to Nigel, who is too polite to refuse although its gore 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 spiraling 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. During the New year's Eve party, things come to a surprisingly real and personal closure, not in the least for Nigel...

From one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, ROMAN POLANSKI (Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, The Pianist), Bitter Moon is a dark, intense and disturbing tale of sexuality and the human psyche. Whilst on a Mediterranean cruise, Nigel and Fiona (Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott Thomas) find a young French woman named Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner) crying in a bathroom. Mimi's paraplegic American husband Oscar (Peter Coyote) forces Nigel to listen to how he and Mimi fell in love - as well as how they discovered kinky erotic games that turn to mutual sadism. Featuring brilliant performances from an all-star cast including Hugh Grant, Kristen Scott Thomas and Peter Coyote, Bitter Moon is undoubtedly one of the most shocking and blackest of comedies you are ever likely to see.

British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later he meets her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story. While living in Paris for several years trying to be a writer, he becomes obsessed with a woman he met by chance on a bus. He tracks her down and they start a steamy love affair. Soon Oscar finds himself enslaved body and soul by her love, and continues to tell Nigel the details of this relationship in various stages over a number of visits to Oscar's cabin.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 29 December, 2019.