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- 1994
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 2 h 19 m
- 1994
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 2 h 19 m
Summary After hearing stories of her, a passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
Directed By: Roman Polanski
Written By: Pascal Bruckner, Gérard Brach, John Brownjohn, Roman Polanski
- 1994
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 2 h 19 m
- 1994
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 2 h 19 m
Bitter Moon
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6.1
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Summary After hearing stories of her, a passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
Directed By: Roman Polanski
Written By: Pascal Bruckner, Gérard Brach, John Brownjohn, Roman Polanski
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
39% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
62
57% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
39% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Polanski has created his funniest and possibly his cruelest movie: a thoroughly warped tale of sexual obsession that leaves its quartet of lust-driven characters with nowhere left to hide. [18 Mar 1994, p.D3]
Adapted by Polanski and his longtime collaborators Gerard Brach and John Brownjohn from a novel by Pascal Bruckner, Bitter Moon works as a kinky sex farce, comedy of manners and playful spin on national stereotypes. [22 Apr 1994, p.AE15]
Bitter Moon is wretched excess. But Polanski directs it without compromise or apology, and it's a funny thing how critics may condescend to it, but while they're watching it you could hear a pin drop.
If you're in the mood for some enjoyable depravity, Bitter Moon is quite a trip. [15 Apr 1994, p.05]
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. The film's big problem is that it's so totally devoid of the sexual energy it needs to traverse the gantlet of perversity through which Polanski sends it. [15 Apr 1994, p.94]
This is bad melodrama, complete with hammy acting and purple prose, and far too long to be even passingly entertaining. It's soap opera quality, from beginning to sensationalistic end.
Roman Polanski's English-language film released internationally two years ago also lays claim to being a kinky sex comedy, but the sex is predictably darker, and the laughs few and far between. [18 Mar 1994]
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 User Ratings
6.1
69% Positive
11 Ratings
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13% Mixed
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19% Negative
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Awards
Yoga Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 1 Nomination
Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD) Awards
• 1 Nomination
