Directed by:
Roman PolańskiCinematography:
Tonino Delli ColliComposer:
VangelisCast:
Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Peter Coyote, Victor Banerjee, Stockard Channing, Patrick Albenque, Geoffrey Carey, Ysé Tran (more)VOD (1)
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Nigel Dobson (Hugh Grant) is an English perfect gentleman, married to equally respectable Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas). On a cruise heading for India, they meet a highly unconventional couple, American unpublished would-be literary celebrity Oscar, in a wheelchair, and his much younger Parisian wife, Mimi. Oscar insists to tell his unsettling life story to Nigel, who is too polite to refuse although its gore content, shamelessly explicit details and foul Yankee language rather disgust the well-bred Brit, yet becomes also fascinated. Oscar tells how he found by chance in Mimi a willing partner for sex, ever pushing their boundaries. When he tires of spiraling passionate devotion to her, the tables turn: Mimi begs Oscar to stay with her at any price, and gets what she bargained for, sadistic scorn and abuse till she's a mere shadow of her former self, yet is finally abandoned on a flight to Martinique. Later Oscar has a car accident, and Mimi returns to Paris to make sure he is condemned to a wheelchair for life, this time utterly dependent on her, no longer free to choose accepting her abuse, yet they get married. Meanwhile Fiona tires of waiting for Nigel during Oscar's story sessions and spends time with flirtatious Italian Dado. During the New year's Eve party, things come to a surprisingly real and personal closure, not in the least for Nigel. (Arrow Films)
(more)Cast
Hugh Grant
UK
Best movies:
The Last Place on Earth (1985) (series)
The Gentlemen (2019)
Love Actually (2003)
Kristin Scott Thomas
UK
Best movies:
Bitter Moon (1992)
I've Loved You So Long (2008)
The English Patient (1996)
Emmanuelle Seigner
France
Best movies:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Bitter Moon (1992)
La Vie en rose (2007)
Peter Coyote
USA
Best movies:
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
The Comey Rule (2020) (series)
Bitter Moon (1992)
Victor Banerjee
Best movies:
A Long Way from Home: Dadah Is Death (1988) (TV movie)
Bitter Moon (1992)
The Chess Players (1977)
Stockard Channing
USA
Best movies:
Smoke (1995)
Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003) (TV movie)
Grease (1978)
Patrick Albenque
Best movies:
Bitter Moon (1992)
Napoléon (2002) (series)
Vatel (2000)
Geoffrey Carey
Best movies:
The Big Blue (1988)
Bitter Moon (1992)
The Hurried Man (1977)
Ysé Tran
Best movies:
Bitter Moon (1992)
In Praise of Love (2001)
Love Is in the Air (2005)
Jim Adhi Limas
Best movies:
Bitter Moon (1992)
The Pillow Book (1996)
Spécial police (1985)
Daniel Dhubert
Best movies:
The Fugitives (1986)
Bitter Moon (1992)
Maigret (1991) (series)
Olivia Brunaux
France
Best movies:
Bitter Moon (1992)
Tales of the Night (2011)
Série noire (1984) (series)
Robert Benmussa
Best movies:
Bitter Moon (1992)
Frédérique Lopez
Best movies:
Bitter Moon (1992)
Maigret (1991) (series)