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BITTER MOON is Roman Polanski's erotic drama exploring the depths of sexual perversion and experimentation, starring Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott Thomas.

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ProducerRoman Polanski, Alain Sarde

EAN5050582267549

eBay Product ID (ePID)44098659

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Film/TV TitleBitter Moon

ActorVictor Banerjee, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Hugh Grant, Emmanuelle Seigner, Peter Coyote

DirectorRoman Polanski

FormatDVD

Release Year2004

LanguageEnglish

Run Time133 Mins

GenreDrama, Adult

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Certificate18

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureFrance

Director of PhotographyTonino Delli Colli

AuthorPascal Bruckner

Additional InformationOn 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(Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) encounter American expatriate Oscar (Peter Coyote), a wheelchair-bound unpublished novelist traveling with his young French wife, Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner).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-a-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.

Movie/TV TitleBitter Moon

ComposerVangelis

ScreenwriterRoman Polanski, John Brownjohn, Gerard Brach

EditorHerve De Luze