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Bitter Moon
1992
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Positive Reviews
11
Negative reviews
10
Average Rating
2.7
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3.0
Seigner, whos been married to Polanski since 1989, has a chameleonic naughty girl sexiness thats genuinely bewitching.
EW
3.8
Well, of course Bitter Moon is wretched excess. But Polanski directs it without compromise or apology.
Rogerebert
1.5
Strong playing by topliner Peter Coyote cant compensate for a script thats all over the map and a tone that veers from outre comedy to erotic game pla ..
Variety
1.5
Teorema is a film thats short on incident but not at all lightweight or unserious.
0.5
Told in long flashbacks, Coyotes tale is a sticky mire of porno cliches.
0.5
By turns funny, brilliant, shocking and downright terrible, this choppy, two hour plus voyage is for Polanski aficionados who dont mind watching their ..
3.5
A disturbing, spare story and a return to Polanskis earlier thematic ground.
2.0
Deliberately provocative, infuriatingly melodramatic, this is a film that begs not to be taken seriously, and requires a ready suspension of moral dis ..
2.5
Im not sure what audience Polanski intended this movie for, but Im obviously not in the target group.
ReelViews
4.4
Polanski tempers his tale by filtering it through Grant, who receives it with a combination of disgust and fascination.
Combust Ible Celluloid
4.5
This uneasy combination of comedy and tragedy, frank pornography and caustic antipornography, sexual fun and games and mental cruelty doesnt allow the ..
Chicago Reader
0.5
They arent stooges at all, but victims, and rather more intriguing than their loud mouthed predators.
Independent
3.1
Some movies are feel good movies. This one is a big black hole of depressing images.
Internet Reviews
3.5
It proves that love stories can be effective even if the protagonists are dislikeable.
Internet Reviews
4.5
By turns moving and creepy and very sexual its one of Polanskis darkest and deepest works, yet strangely one of his least celebrated.
Mountain X
2.0
With all my reservations about the characters masochism and self degradation, Peter Coyote should be singled out for rendering a powerful and original ..
Emanuellevy
2.0
Polanskis impeccable casting choices create a boundless sense of dramatic energy that alternately simmers and boils.
Coles Mithey
2.5
But Mimi clings, so Oscar torments her, hoping shell just go away.
Movies Tv Guide
1.5
Recklessly perched on the edge of the ludicrous, this examination of a destructive erotic passion unfolds with an unsettling mixture of steam and mord ..
News Week
3.0
Oscar encourages the romance, bemoaning that hes come to accept that hes half a man.
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
4.5
Polanskis study of a marriage based on obsession, lust and cruelty was panned by critics as tasteless pornography, but theres a rich fascination in th ..
Film 4
4.5
Seigners performance builds into a sensual tour de force, uninhibited, wild, poignant and finally vengeful.
Hartford Courant
1.5
You laugh, but you watch, and sometimes you watch without laughing at all. Its a cruise on the wild side with no Dramamine required.
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