Bitter Moon

• Hugh Grant: Nigel
• Kristin Scott Thomas: Fiona
• Emmanuelle Seigner: Mimi
• Peter Coyote: Oscar
• Victor Banerjee: Mr. Singh
• Sophie Patel Amrita Singh
• Stockard Channing: Beverly

Bitter Moon is a British- French film from 1992 The film is based on the novel Bitter Moon. ( Original title: Lunes de fell ) by Pascal Bruckner.

Action

Fiona and Nigel take a trip on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean. Where she met Nigel paraplegic Americans know Oscar, who tells him the story of his relationship with the Frenchwoman Mimi. Flashbacks that comprise the greater part of the film, as shown by the initial passionate love affair for him increasingly boring and gradually becomes a burden. Finally, he plays Mimi before a joint trip, but leaves the aircraft secretly before the start. In Paris, he turns back to volatile affairs until he is injured in a traffic accident. Mimi visited him in the hospital and then crashes the fixed with a broken leg Oscar out of bed, whereupon he is paralyzed from the waist down. He is now completely dependent on her help and she starts first subliminally, to take revenge on him. Between the two, a power struggle developed, with the power - powerlessness games exceed a few taboos, to the act of love Mimi's with a lover in earshot Oscars.

The English couple is initially a spectator, but is increasingly involved. Finally Mimi spends a night of love with Fiona, whereupon Oscar Mimi and himself with a gun, she has once given him for his birthday, shoots.

Reviews

" Polanski directs it without compromise or apology, and it's a funny thing how critics june condescend to it, but while they're watching it you Could hear a pin drop. "

" Polanski's directing is without compromise or justification, and it is strange to see how condescending some critics treat the film, but you could hear a pin drop, as they watched the movie. "

Comments

• For the part of Oscar James Woods was originally provided.
• Emmanuelle Seigner is since 1989 the wife of Roman Polanski.
• As a side project to film music realized Vangelis 1990, the album The City, where have Polanski and Seigner guest appearances.