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Bitter Moon
The film centers on a young man who is eager to renew the sexual fire in his marriage so he decides to have a journey with her wife. Suddenly, He confronts and falls for another seductive woman which makes everything becomes chaos.
15 October 1946, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
1968
22 June 1966, Paris, France
1964
15 March 1961, France
February 19, 2010
Bitter Moon is entertaining, but in the manner of ghastly car crashes and legendary theatrical disasters; you can't take your eyes off it, but you often want to.
February 19, 2010
Polanski's study of a marriage based on obsession, lust and cruelty was panned by critics as tasteless pornography, but there's a rich fascination in the film's openly voyeuristic, lurid extremes.
January 01, 2000
By turns funny, brilliant, shocking and downright terrible, this choppy, two-hour-plus voyage is for Polanski aficionados who don't mind watching their favorite, aging enfant terrible going gleefully under.
May 26, 2006
Polanski tempers his tale by filtering it through Grant, who receives it with a combination of disgust and fascination.
March 21, 2015
[VIDEO ESSAY] A be-all-and-end-all example of erotic drama...
April 09, 2007
A fascinatingly ugly study of a relationship gone sour.
March 26, 2009
Strong playing by topliner Peter Coyote can't compensate for a script that's all over the map and a tone that veers from outre comedy to erotic game-playing.
February 19, 2010
Deliberately provocative, infuriatingly melodramatic, this is a film that begs not to be taken seriously, and requires a ready suspension of moral discernment for maximum enjoyment.
January 01, 2000
During 2 1/2 hours of choppy waters, soured love affairs and seasickly moods, the controversial director's Lust Boat becomes the Loathe Boat. By then, it's way too late for Dramamine.
February 09, 2006
Rich and darkly disturbing, it's also wickedly entertaining.
February 19, 2010
It's a matter of some dispute whether Roman Polanski's letter to the darker side of the romantic impulse, but there's little question that this is his most emotionally complex movie.
August 30, 2004
This material obviously appeals to his sense of mischief, which remains alive and well.