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	BITTER MOON, A FILM BY ROMAN POLANSKI
		Our base is a luxury cruiseship, but much of Bitter Moon – even most of it – is flashback: Oscar's giant self-narrated backstory, as queasy in its sexual rollings and pitchings as the voyage on which he's telling it.
		Bitter Moon is about bodies and souls in hopeless, funny-tragic entanglement; it's a movie essay on folly, volatility, and the nasty things that happen to human beings when they exchange spiritual fluids.
		Bitter Moon does not demand to be read as a Polanski fable.
	americancinemapapers.homestead.com /files/BITTER_MOON.htm (1818 words)

	'Bitter Moon'
		een as the bizarre, seat-of- the-pants endeavor it is, Roman Polanski's "Bitter Moon" is good for a howl or two.
		"Moon," like most of his films, is about multiple levels of entrapment: Everyone seems to be enslaved by themselves and each other.
		Above all, "Moon" is abundant with horseplay, as the Polish director rolls out his array of shock tactics and fl humor.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/bittermoonrhowe_a0b049.htm (487 words)

	Polanski's Bitter Moon
		Bitter Moon employs a similar narrative method wherein one man is taken hostage by another man's tale of misery.
		You wince at his desperate exit, yet realize it was scripted by his muse, the bitter moon in red who gave him the gun as a birthday present.
		The soundtrack by Vangelis is excellent, is pure onomatopoeia with the ocean, the moon, the bitter spirit that pervades this story of poisoned love.
	www.culturecourt.com /F/Noir/BitterMoon.htm (1672 words)

	Foster on Film - Noir: Bitter Moon
		Bitter Moon is a great big, twisted tale of love, hate, and death, that signifies far too little.
		Polanski's had many troubling events in his life (look it up) and I could imagine he's developed a dark philosophy, but Bitter Moon is a cry for anti-depressants.
		Bitter Moon uses sex to illuminate the futility of existence.
	www.fosteronfilm.com /noir/bittermoon.htm (891 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Bitter Moon
		The author of this review admits that he haven't read the novel but the idea of BITTER MOON being a "simple love story" looks totally alien to him, at least if the 1992 screen version, directed by Roman Polanski, was faithful adaptation of the novel.
		Nigel is shocked by this series of discoveries and starts to wonder what kind of perverse game Oscar plays with him, but in the same time he can't get enough of it, partially because he is getting more and more attracted to Mimi.
		BITTER MOON is anything but "simple" love story, but it is a nevertheless a love story, and it proves that love stories can be effective even if the protagonists are dislikeable, and the events on the screen mostly revolting or depressing.
	all-reviews.com /videos-3/bitter-moon.htm (612 words)

	Bitter Moon
		That ghastly bitter sound was the only thing that kept her from losing her mind.
		For a brief moment she had stood there and watched the full moon and listened to the wind in the old tree.
		That moon had lured her away, that moon had made her fall asleep and stop her vigil for a few hours.
	www.angelfire.com /tv2/TYRmusic/BMp.html (891 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Bitter Moon (xhtml)
		The returns are in from Europe and the coasts, and the critics have found Roman Polanski's "Bitter Moon" an embarrassment: It is too melodramatic, too contrived, too overwrought, too overacted.
		What bothers some of the critics, I suspect, is the audacity which Polanski exhibits by casting his own wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, in the central role - as a voracious seductress with fl widow tendencies, whose amusement is to blind men in the headlights of her sexuality, and step on the gas.
		But "Bitter Moon" is nothing if it is not audacious, Polanski is far beyond concern over matters of taste, and his wife at least never seems miscast in a role which would have stopped many another actress cold in her tracks.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19940408/REVIEWS/404080301/1023 (671 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Bitter Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		In his 14 mostly overrated movies since that auspicious coming out, his attempts at seriousness and formula have been crashing bores rescued only by the fashion of his brand name, and his only shining moments reserved for the few playful escapades he has allowed himself (and Rosemary's Baby as the only complete success, at that).
		Bitter Moon, as it is, is one of his better films, even if only in moments.
		Bitter Moon stars Peter Coyote as Oscar, a decaying cripple enduring some painful karmic SandM for his callow participation in a kinky affair.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/b/bittermoon.q.shtml (398 words)

	THE TENANT; BITTER MOON; DEATH AND THE MAIDEN - DVDs
		In Bitter Moon, the narrator (Peter Coyote) becomes obsessed with the rose-tinted Paris nightlife outside his window as his relationship with live-in girlfriend Mimi (Polanski's real-life wife Emmanuelle Seigner) loses its charge.
		Set aboard a cruise ship bound for India, Bitter Moon serves as a wonderful introduction to Polanski but is surprisingly banal if your familiarity with his oeuvre is more than cursory.
		The Tenant includes the film's Hitchcockian trailer; the Bitter Moon and Death and the Maiden platters feature ROM-enabled weblinks and trailers for Bitter Moon, Death and the Maiden, Invincible, The Sleeping Dictionary, and Invisible Circus.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/polanskittbmdatm.htm (876 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Bitter Moon
		Their affair, told in Oscar's subjective flashback, moves with sickening momentum from their meet-cute, passionate love affair, sexual obsession with each other, and the moment when they begin get so tired of each other that they swirl deeper and deeper into a cycle of betrayal, abuse, and torture.
		The most transgressive aspect of Bitter Moon is how Polanski's presentation of the lurid material (widely derided by critics as being too misanthropic and extreme) is far more successful when dealing with the self-loathing, self-destructive Oscar than in trying to make Nigel's overblown indignation believable.
		Whereas the hollowing-out of Rosemary Woodhouse as she begins to lose her notions of sanity was in many respects as much self-imposed as it was inflicted upon her by her egotistical husband, Mimi's devastation is unmistakably the work of Oscar's cunning and ruthless psychological demolition.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=711 (500 words)

	Amazon.com: Bitter Moon: DVD: Hugh Grant,Kristin Scott Thomas,Emmanuelle Seigner,Peter Coyote,Victor Banerjee,Sophie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		"Bitter Moon" was first released in Europe in 1992, but it took two years for it to finally be shown in America.
		Bitter Moon is minor Polanski, an overlong but enjoyable fl comedy about sexual obsession.
		Bitter Moon emphasizes the worst in humanity and provokes a guttural disgust for the characters played by Peter Coyote and Emmanuel Seigner.
	www.amazon.com /Bitter-Moon-Roman-Polanski/dp/B00008YLV7 (1929 words)

	Review: Bitter Moon
		Thematically, however, Bitter Moon, with its failed attempts to delve into the issue of sexual repression, has more in common with another recent Hugh Grant offering -- Sirens.
		It's a weakness of Bitter Moon that the explosive ending seems cheap and contrived rather than the natural wrap to a series of events.
		Bitter Moon is being marketed as an art film, but this is one of the instances when the line between art and exploitation blurs and mingles, and not for the better.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/b/bitter_moon.html (686 words)

	Amazon.ca: Bitter Moon: DVD: Roman Polanski,Patrick Albenque,Victor Banerjee,Boris Bergman,Geoffrey Carey,Stockard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Bitter Moon veers erratically from salacious erotica to fl comedy to clumsy psychodrama, but individual scenes have a definite punch.
		In case anyone believes that my distaste for "bitter Moon" stems from its sexual or violent content let me assure you that is certainly not the case.
		It is the easiest thing in the world to criticize movies like Bitter Moonshaking one's head wearily and complaining about the director's zany imagination.
	www.amazon.ca /Bitter-Moon-Roman-Polanski/dp/B00008YLV7 (1539 words)

	Bitter Moon - DVD - Title B Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		CREDITS ~~~~~~~~ Bitter Moon was released in the UK in July 1992 (and in the USA nearly 2 years later) and is a Roman Polanski production.
		It runs for 133 minutes and is rated certificate 18 due to several scenes of nudity and use of profanities.
		Bitter Moon was filmed on location in Paris and at the Paris Studios Billancourt with cinematography by Tonino Delli Colli.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /dvd-title-b/bitter-moon (218 words)

	bitter moon
		But Polanski directs it without compromise or apology, and it is funny how critics may condescend to it, but while they’re watching it you could hear a pin drop”.
		Still Bitter Moon is technically sound but too daring and in any event, I doubt whether anyone expected mainstream success as it was clearly marketed an art film.
		Perhaps this is what the renowned film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago-Sun Times alluded to when he wrote.
	www.realgrid.biz /bittermoon.htm (695 words)

	Bitter Moon - Moviefone
		Synopsis: A perverse, dark-humored comedy drama, Bitter Moon crosses the line into intentional camp more often than not in its tale of a kinky cripple Oscar...
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	IGN: Bitter Moon Review
		Perhaps as a result of the massive success of last year's Polanski-directed The Pianist, Polanski's sexually explicit Bitter Moon is finally being released on DVD.
		But still, for a 2.0 mix, Bitter Moon is not a big of a disappointment as you might expect.
		I was surprised actually during the New Year's Eve party to hear the stage as wide as it was.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/422/422738p1.html (813 words)

	Mark King's 'Bitter' Moon
		The Bass Centre's guitar tech Chris Ward had done a splendid job of re-fretting the Moon, but I resisted the strong urge to buy it.
		However, upon returning to the UK in March for Mark's end-of-tour home-turf show on the Isle of Wight, I felt an irresistable pull toward east-end London, in the specific direction of the Bass Centre.
		He was at the airport when we landed and just gave it to me! I pulled out the frets a couple of years later.
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	Bitter Moon
		If nothing else, with "Bitter Moon" you'll get to see a very young Hugh Grant.
		Shot by frequent Polanski collaborator Tonino Delli Colli, the image is lovely and has been transferred competently in 1.85:1 widescreen.
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	EUFS: Bitter Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Bitter Moon represents a return to form after the rather formulaic Frantic, and is also the best first date movie since In the Realm or the Senses.
		The fact that Bitter Moon could be a watered down account of much of Polanski's life makes it all the more perversely compelling.
		Potentially offensive to those with an underdeveloped sense of irony, this is a film that delights in its own depravity.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/bitter_moon.html (197 words)

	Review: Bitter Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		In Bitter Moon, a film stuffed with flashbacks and voice-over narration, Roman Polanski has made a film about the art of storytelling and the impact of a tale on the person who tries to absorb it.
		A wheelchair-bound writer, Oscar (Peter Coyote), who is traveling with his wife, Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner), meets a repressed English couple (Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott-Thomas) and tries to titillate them with an account of his bizarre marriage.
		As Oscar blabbers on and on, and the film keeps veering from present to past, it loses its moorings and finally sinks.
	movieline.standard8media.com /reviews/bittermoon_rvw.shtml (308 words)

	Bitter Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		He felt a tickle on his cheek, brushed at it and was surprised to discover that he had been crying, correction...Cordy had found a way to shed the tears bottled up inside her.
		Tasted the bitterness of her disappointment on his tongue.
		Angel laughed, and this time there was no bitterness or anger snapping at the edges of it.
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	Grapefruit Moon Gallery: Bitter Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Originally created as movie art for Amarga Justicia (Bitter Justice), this is a finely rendered and wildly cool gouache by the talented illustrator Beton.
		Grapefruit Moon Gallery is pleased to offer this collection of vintage 1970's-1980's original commissioned illustrations for the Mexican movie industry.
		These gouache paintings borrow from and expand upon the style and iconography of lurid and spicy pulp fiction illustrations.
	grapefruitmoongallery.com /gallery/print320.shtml (160 words)

	Amazon.com: Bitter Moon: Video: Hugh Grant,Kristin Scott Thomas,Emmanuelle Seigner,Peter Coyote,Victor Banerjee,Sophie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Bitter Moon-Roman Polanski's rivetingly weird new movie tells the story of two married couples who meet on a cruise ship.
		Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas), a proper pair of Brits, are obviously a little bored with each other; voluptuous Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner) and her wheelchair-bound husband, Oscar (Peter Coyote), are locked in a destructive relationship in which their mutual passion can be expressed only as cruelty.
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	www.amazon.com /Bitter-Moon-Hugh-Grant/dp/6303914985 (2173 words)

	Bitter Moon Reviews
		BITTER MOON is a very well made and well directed movie by Roman Polanski.
		I couldn't tell if BITTER MOON was intended as a serious study of sexual obsession or as a too-subtle parody of the same thing.
		Roman Polanski has either gone off the deep end with this story of a man overwhelmed by desire for his young wife...
	www.killermovies.com /b/bittermoon/reviews (121 words)

	Web Directory » Web Directory » Arts » Movies » Titles » B » Bitter Moon
		IMDb: Bitter Moon - Synopsis, cast and crew, and viewer comments.
		Realgrid Writing: Bitter Moon - Film review by Ottavio Marasco.
		Rogerebert.com - Bitter Moon - Roger Ebert reviews Bitter Moon for the Sun Times.
	www.dcpages.com /DC_ODP/?c=Arts/Movies/Titles/B/Bitter_Moon (176 words)

	Bitter Moon
		He remains a keen, sly observer of the dangerous games people play to protect their psychic turf...
		Coyote's broken, bitter Oscar, with his bad teeth and sickly pallor, is a sadistic Scheherazade, perversely compelled to spin out his lurid tale.
		Through the photography of Tonino Delli Colli, the sea reflects the turbulence of Oscar's confessions, and Paris is seen as alternatively romantic and sordid...
	www.petercoyote.com /bittermoon.html (1690 words)

	DVD: Bitter Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Offbeat and original, this voyage of wild obsession puts a whole new twist on the concept of marital bliss.
		Featuring dazzling performances and nasty comic moments, BITTER MOON is a hilarious walk on the wild side.
		This item can not be shipped outside the U.S.A. [DVDBITTERMOON] DVD: Bitter Moon
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	Amazon.co.uk: Bitter Moon [1992]: DVD: Hugh Grant,Kristin Scott Thomas,Emmanuelle Seigner,Peter Coyote,Victor ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
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		A man whose torrid love affair with a younger woman has left him crippled and bitter tells his story of sexual obsession and dissolution to a stuffy Englishman aboard a luxury liner.
		Nigel (Grant) and Fiona (Scott-Thomas) are celebrating their seventh anniversary on a cruise to Istanbul as part of a trip to India.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Bitter-Moon-Hugh-Grant/dp/B0002OI01A (1117 words)

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