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Legendary filmmaker Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby, Repulsion) explores the sexy side of obsession and the wild side of romance in this outrageous look at the dark side of love. Starring Peter Coyote (Heart of Midnight), Emmanuelle Seigner (Frantic), Hugh Grant (Notting Hill) and Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient). A mild-mannered man (Grant) attempts to rekindle the sexual fire in his marriage while on a cruise, but he develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic’s wife (Seigner). 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. Stunningly shot by Tonino Delli Colli (Once Upon a Time in America) with a beautiful score by Vangelis (Blade Runner). Co-starring Victor Banerjee (A Passage to India).Special Features:-NEW Interview with star Peter Coyote -NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Troy Howarth -Theatrical Trailer Review: A Journey into Obsession - Ever loved someone so much you just burnt out......I think this is a fabulous movie which takes you into a journey of desire and obsession. Stars Roman Polanski's wife who is also in Frantic with Harrison Ford and Also The Ninth Gate with Johhny Depp. Emmanuelle Sieger is a fantastic actress though I've not seen her in french film of which she carved her carear. She brings a unique sexual tention to any plot sweet girl, angel or devils mistress. I digress. This film has very sexual overtone. And pushes your imagination rather than being blatent in its delivery. I first saw this movie as a VHS maybe ten years ago. Yet i enjoyed so much I had to get a copy I searched everywhere for and finally got a copy through desertcart. Hugh grant plays his normal bubbling brit but iI like this because the woman in the movie show him for what he is...Well the character he plays... but the best Character is Peter Coyote. A frustrated writer trying to break it as a writer....I love how he is like a narrator and verbably telling the story of how he end up in a wheel chair and the love story of his wife...You know he's supposed to be a writer so his style is both shocking and poetic. This is a rare and very enjoyable movie twist too..... Review: Of Human Bondage - This is another of Polanski's epic films. It is not for everyone and some will cringe and run in its portrayal of human brutality and sexual liberty. Some will fault the film for no other reason than being unable to understand its intricacies and meaning. It is in many respects a modern "Of Human Bondage". It is the tale of a man who is smitten by a woman and pursues her, only to eventually lose his feelings for her and actually exert his wrath and disgust on her. She, in turn, loves him, adores him and idolizes him until his hatred of her, while resulting in a continued devotion to him in his eventual crippled state, attacks her emotions in an unparalleled way. Her feelings have been compromised and her devotion now lacks the love necessary to complement it. The ending is true to form and while shocking, it could end no other way. The film is a sad commentary on the human condition. I am not sure what happened to all the Polanski films but they seem difficult to secure. Some are available but not as Region 1. This is the Spanish edition (Region 1) and I was drawn to it because it has the original English dialogue and was a reasonable price. The film print is certainly not the finest in digital quality.

| ASIN | B07PBD8LMX |
| Actors | Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant, Peter Coyote |
| Best Sellers Rank | #199,330 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #11,201 in Drama Blu-ray Discs |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (602) |
| MPAA rating | R (Restricted) |
| Media Format | Anamorphic, NTSC, Subtitled |
| Number of discs | 1 |
| Product Dimensions | 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.93 ounces |
| Release date | May 21, 2019 |
| Run time | 2 hours and 19 minutes |
| Studio | KL Studio Classics |
S**T
A Journey into Obsession
Ever loved someone so much you just burnt out......I think this is a fabulous movie which takes you into a journey of desire and obsession. Stars Roman Polanski's wife who is also in Frantic with Harrison Ford and Also The Ninth Gate with Johhny Depp. Emmanuelle Sieger is a fantastic actress though I've not seen her in french film of which she carved her carear. She brings a unique sexual tention to any plot sweet girl, angel or devils mistress. I digress. This film has very sexual overtone. And pushes your imagination rather than being blatent in its delivery. I first saw this movie as a VHS maybe ten years ago. Yet i enjoyed so much I had to get a copy I searched everywhere for and finally got a copy through amazon. Hugh grant plays his normal bubbling brit but iI like this because the woman in the movie show him for what he is...Well the character he plays... but the best Character is Peter Coyote. A frustrated writer trying to break it as a writer....I love how he is like a narrator and verbably telling the story of how he end up in a wheel chair and the love story of his wife...You know he's supposed to be a writer so his style is both shocking and poetic. This is a rare and very enjoyable movie twist too.....
S**E
Of Human Bondage
This is another of Polanski's epic films. It is not for everyone and some will cringe and run in its portrayal of human brutality and sexual liberty. Some will fault the film for no other reason than being unable to understand its intricacies and meaning. It is in many respects a modern "Of Human Bondage". It is the tale of a man who is smitten by a woman and pursues her, only to eventually lose his feelings for her and actually exert his wrath and disgust on her. She, in turn, loves him, adores him and idolizes him until his hatred of her, while resulting in a continued devotion to him in his eventual crippled state, attacks her emotions in an unparalleled way. Her feelings have been compromised and her devotion now lacks the love necessary to complement it. The ending is true to form and while shocking, it could end no other way. The film is a sad commentary on the human condition. I am not sure what happened to all the Polanski films but they seem difficult to secure. Some are available but not as Region 1. This is the Spanish edition (Region 1) and I was drawn to it because it has the original English dialogue and was a reasonable price. The film print is certainly not the finest in digital quality.
T**W
Full Moon?
A short way into "Bitter Moon", you realise that in directing his real-life wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, Roman Polanski placed himself in the position of Peter Coyote's character, who seemingly takes perverse pleasure in watching his wife having affairs with other men. One wonders what was going on in Roman's head as he sat there with his megaphone while Coyote licked the milk spilling down Seigner's naked torso - even if it was just pretends? Seigner also performed a couple of other up close and personal, pants-free romps with Coyote later in the movie. Maybe everyone involved could have used a session or two with Doctor Phil to sort it all out. It's very hard to separate the turbulent events in Polanski's life from his movies; surely they have defined his work to a degree, especially as he has so much control over what he does. Some films work better than others, but none can be dismissed out of hand - although there were a couple of moments in "Bitter Moon" when I thought that was where we were heading. The film starts on a cruise liner as a young married couple, Nigel and Fiona Dobson (Hugh Grant and Kristen Scott Thomas), become involved with wheelchair bound Oscar Benton (Peter Coyote) and his seductive wife Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner). Benton has a goading nature and takes delight in telling Nigel details of his life with Mimi, sparing no juicy detail. He tells how he went from lust to obsession then to absolute disdain before becoming totally dependent on her when he landed in the wheelchair. When Nigel learns that Benton practically throws his wife at other men, he becomes entranced with her and is determined to be one of those men. However, near the end, Nigel and Fiona receive a jolt that reignites their marriage, or so it seems as the ship sails off into the sunset. It wasn't until halfway through the film, about the time Benton entered the disdain phase of his relationship with Mimi that I think I finally got this movie - it's a comedy - a dark one to be sure. The change of pace midstream, especially when Benton starts to bully Elsa, is pretty ridiculous, and I really don't think his performance is all that convincing from that point on unless it's all seen as a big joke played on the hapless Nigel - then everything falls into place. Although definitely over-the-top, "Bitter Moon" moves at such a fast pace that it doesn't give you much time to think about the inconsistencies. Just waiting to see how far Polanski will let his wife go is enough to keep you on the edge of your seat without worrying about the story. I think the film can be grouped with other Polanski films such as "The Tenant", "Frantic" and "The Ninth Gate"; way better than his misfires, but ultimately not as well realised as "Rosemary's Baby", "Chinatown", "The Pianist" or "The Ghost Writer".
バ**堂
パスカル・ブルックナーの原作名は、「胆汁の月」。フランス語では「新婚旅行」との語呂合わせになっているという。<物語はマルセイユからイスタンブールに向かう客船で行われ、二人を引き裂こうとする男と出会うカップルに焦点を当ててい>るという、が、この中で重要なのは、クルーズ船内で起る、という点のみだ―邦題「赤い航路」はこちらをとった。もっと重要なのは、この物語がほぼ語られるだけであり、それを聞く―聞かせられるナイジェルにとっては、夢か現かも―虚か実かも不明瞭であるという点だ。従って、映画もナイジェルに話を聞かせるオスカーとその妻ミミの[夢か現かも不明瞭な]物語が中心である。オスカーが売れない作家で、潤沢な財産を相続したという設定は、人生の時間をどのように使ってもいいということと、物語の語り部としてこれ以上相応しい者はいないという点で巧みだ。映画の原題は「苦い月」。これは、オスカーとミミにとって同じ月でも意味あいが異なるということだろうか。ややこしい紹介だが、物語はもっと複雑で、もっと苦く胆汁質で、ナイジェルと同じように途中で話を聞いていられなくなること請け合いだ。しかし、不快な話の続きをまた聞きに行ってしまうナイジェルと同じに、観ているわれわれもまた眠っている何かが目を覚ますのを感じる。嫌悪の裏側の何かが。苦痛なだけだったオスカーの話―それはある愛の一生にしかすぎない―が、いつしか興味深い女と男の信じがたい生体実験のような話に思われてくる。それが他人の性愛の話だからではない。繰り返すが、それは決して甘美なものではない。ここでBitterという単語を想いうかべてもいい。しかし、単に恋愛はBitterなものでもある、といった呑気なものではないのだ。オスカーは車椅子でナイジェルの前に現れるが、彼が脚萎えとなった直接の原因がミミにあるとしたらどうだろう。 この愛憎が文字どおり表裏一体となった男女が、どのように出会い、どのように今現在の彼らの姿―オスカーはミミの浮気相手は私が決めると言った―に行き着いたのか。この長い長い話を断続的に聞いていくうちにナイジェルは、結婚七年目の記念で共にクルーズ船に乗った妻フィオナとのことを想う。彼らに子どもはなく、性生活も絶えてなかった。そんな夫婦はざらにいるはずだが、ナイジェルは自らの心の底を覗いた気になっていく。空っぽなそこに、いつしかミミが侵入していることに気づくのだ。観ている者の中には彼を非難する者もいるかもしれない。それは、フィオナを演じたクリスティン・スコット・トーマスも実に美しく魅惑的な女性だからだ。しかし、それでも彼女はミミを演じることは出来なかっただろう。ミミはやはりエマニュエル・セニエしかありえない。「フランティック」で出会ったポランスキーとはすでに結婚していたが、ミミこそ彼女を闇の底から輝かせることのできる運命の配役であると彼らは思ったに違いない(少なくとも夫=監督は!)。それほど、ここでのエマニュエルは闇の陰惨と光の輝きを一身に体現している。オスカーを演じるピーター・コヨーテも腐り果てた車椅子の卑屈な男と同一人物とは思えないくらいのダンディな姿を彼の語る話の中で見せてくれるが、エマニュエルの演じるミミの闇と光の絵巻は空前絶後に近いものがある。あのグラマラスなだけではないしなやかな身体、その官能的な動き!ファッションがくるくる変わるだけではない。髪型の変化だけでこれほど容貌そのものが変わるのか―ショートカットの彼女はどこか「袋小路」のフランソワーズ・ドルレアックに似ている―がたいはいいし、表情がかたいときはまるで大年増な感じさえするのに、笑いでほころぶと少女のようだし、発する声そのものが愛らしく、フランス訛りのアクセントはどこかオードリー・ヘップバーンさえ想わせる。こんな魔女と妖精が同居したような逸材はなまじ捜すとなると世界の果てまでいかなければならないのじゃないか。それが自分の女房だったなんて!なんと幸運な監督だろう。これこそ最も背徳な話じゃないだろうか! それはともかく、ここでほぼ強制的に話を聞かされるナイジェルとは、おそらくわれわれの代行者だ。はじめは単に他人のお話にすぎなかったものが、段々と侵食して来、やがて自らの現実にまで到達してしまう。これは恐怖譚ではかならずしもないが、妻の嫉妬をまでまねき寄せ、終いには衝撃の結末が待っている。しかし、彼らの行きつく先は、あそこしかなかったとも言える。あれの他に彼らの居場所はなかった。いわば、彼らは究極の愛を生きたのかも知れない。限られた生のなかで、限られた肉体を通して愛を貫こうとすればああいう形しかなかった、とも考えられないわけではない。そういう意味では、原作者が哲学者であったことが納得されてしまうのだ。これは、ひとつのドラマティックな思考実験であると。 但し、深刻なだけではない。思わず笑ってしまう箇所もあちこちにあって、殊にオスカーとナイジェルの男ども(まさに蜉蝣だッ)が取り残される形になる意外なクライマックスは作り手の才気を感じさせて痛快だった。
T**O
Yo tengo ya esta obra dirigida por Roman Polanski en DVD y quise obtenerla en Blue Ray porque se ve muchisimo major. A mi me gusta esta obra y al que le apetezca major en Blue Ray como a mi que la compre. Que os parece?
R**E
„Bitter Moon“ ist Roman Polanski's Erotikdrama aus dem Jahr 1992, über Entstehung und Verfall einer Beziehung, dem unglaublich schönen Reiz des Beginns, den anfänglich erotischen, dann sexuellen Spielereien, dem Erkalten der Liebe, und schliesslich seiner eiskalten Abrechnung der Partner miteinander. Die wundervolle Musik von Vangelis taucht dieses Kreuzfahrtschiff auf stürmischer See in die Abgründe der erzählten Leidenschaft. Auf einer Schiffsreise nach Istanbul lernen sich zwei Ehepaare kennen: Nigel (Hugh Grant) und Fiona (Kristin Scott-Thomas) sind etwas biedere Engländer. Oscar (Peter Coyote) ist ein auf den Rollstuhl angewiesener älterer amerikanischer Schriftsteller, ein Bohemien, und die exaltierte Französin Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner), seine Ehefrau, könnte seine Tochter sein. Nigel ist sofort fasziniert von Mimi. Das merken auch Oscar und Fiona. Der verbitterte, sarkastische Oscar spricht den Fremden an, um ihm die Geschichte seiner Ehe zu erzählen. Der irritierte Nigel würde dem gern entfliehen, doch es gelingt ihm nicht. Zunächst aus Höflichkeit und Mitgefühl, doch immer mehr fasziniert ihn die Geschichte und vor allem die schöne Frau. Oscar schaut seinem Gegenüber verwegen in die Augen, um seine sexuellen Eskapaden und Praktiken bis ins Detail zu offenbaren und Tag für Tag erzählt er in Rückblenden einen weiteren Teil ihrer Beziehung. Und was zunächst als Geschichte um eine ins Obsessive hinein gesteigerte Liebe beginnt, voller Begehren und sexueller Erfüllung, wird schnell zum Schreckgespenst. Es dauert nicht allzu lange, da wird aus Leidenschaft Gleichgültigkeit, aus triebhafter Spannung Langeweile. Was folgt, ist ein Strudel aus emotionaler Grausamkeit, Erniedrigung, Hass und Rache. Geradezu unaushaltbar würdelos lässt sich die einstmals heissgeliebte, wagemutig exhibitionistische Mimi hier erniedrigen, nur um bei ihrem Partner Oscar bleiben zu dürfen. In eiskalter Manier lässt dieser sie immer wieder abblitzen, als er sie satt hat. Keine Gemeinheit wird ausgelassen, um den anderen zu verletzen. Hass und Kränkung wird zum normalen alltäglichen Umgang. Doch die Rache von Mimi Jahre später wird ebenso grausam sein. Sicher über die Maßen überspitzt und sarkastisch, aber dennoch psychologisch gar nicht so abwegig webt Polanski sein Netz. Wer eine Beziehung noch nicht in seinen Höhen und Tiefen erlebt hat, wird das Konstrukt und die Handlungsweisen der Protagonisten vielleicht nicht so ganz verstehen. Einiges ist absolut nachvollziehbar wie es Polanski beschreibt... und die Rollenverteilung ist da völlig unerheblich. Es ist ein bitteres Spiegelbild der Vergänglichkeit von Leidenschaft und Lust, der Zerbrechlichkeit von erotischer Anziehung, so wie der einhergehenden Veränderung in den Herzen und Köpfen. Absolute Liebe und Hingabe klingt reizvoll, aber der Preis dafür kann mitunter zu groß sein. In dieser Geschichte ist es nun die Unterwürfigkeit der Frau, die eiskalte Abrechnung des Mannes.... die subtile und langanhaltende Rache der Frau fürs Nicht-Geliebt-Werden. Die Besetzung ist grossartig: Emmanuelle Seigner wird verführerisch wie eine Göttin von ihrem Mann in Szene gesetzt. Peter Coyote hat das richtige Knittergesicht, um der verbitterten Figur gerecht zu werden, die er verkörpern muss. Was ihm wirklich beeindruckend gelingt. Der schamhafte Hugh Grant und Kristin Scott Thomas, kühl und distanziert, spielen das unerfahrene Ehepaar, dessen Beziehung durch das Zusammentreffen mit dem gestörten Paar Oscar und Mimi erheblich auf die Probe gestellt wird, ungemein glaubhaft. Ein beeindruckender Film und keineswegs ein Schmuddelerotikfilm, wie er von manchen abgetan wird, denn keine Szene wirkt obszön, trotz hemmungsloser, teils bizarrer sexueller Spielereien, die mit Sicherheit Geschmacksache sind und manchmal auch sogar, vermutlich ungewollt, etwas Belustigendes haben. Doch Polanski warnt geradezu vor dem Abgleiten in eine Beziehung, in der gar nichts mehr passiert, die in ihrer Monotonie erstickt, raubt aber auch jenen, die meinen, allein das Auskosten aller sexueller Fantasien würde im Paradies enden und der einzige Weg ins Glück sein, vermutlich jegliche Illusionen. Insgesamt ist „Bitter Moon“ mit 133min. meiner Ansicht nach vielleicht etwas zu lang geraten. Aber die unglaubliche Passion, mit der Polanski seine Geschichte schildert und seine Darsteller agieren lässt, ist einfach eine bebende Wut voller Emotionalitäten und ein ganz aussergewöhnliches Filmerlebnis.
F**1
I've had a love-hate relationship with this Polanski for years. I could never quite make up my mind, but the fact that I have seen it quite a few times should count for something. I've now decided I REALLY like it. The bits I used to cringe at are actually quite funny and enjoyable and actually quite erotic (like Seigner pouring milk over her breasts) and all the SM stuff is laughable, but only because the characters in the end find it laughable. Coyote and Seigner's relationship really is a car-crash of a relationship and it has the commensurate attraction of such horrible events. There is a sort of patness to the way Hugh Grant and Kristen Scott Thomas's relationship is resolved, not to say melodrama in terms of the final scenes where Thomas and Seigner get it on and Coyote finally takes bitter revenge on Seigner (Mimi), but all this is preceded by an engrossing pattern of master/servant role-reversals very much in the tradition of the cyclical nature of life that Polanski has always been interested in. Coyote is brilliant as the writer manqué who one minute you hate and the next you pity. Seigner is a much better actress than I have given her credit for over the years, and she has a sense of humour behind the mask of her Parisian cool that is disarming. Bertolucci's The Conformist it isn't, nor is it of the stature of Repulsion, Cul de Sac, Rosemary's Baby, MacBeth, Chinatown, or The Tenant, but it does fit - if not slip - into Polanski's oeuvre. One other proof for me that it is a successful film is that I can never quite remember all the crazy plot machinations; every time I re-watch it, it surprises me.
C**N
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