the british nigel ( hugh grant ) and his wife fiona ( kristin scott thomas ) be celebrate the seventh anniversary of their marriage in a cruise to istanbul and bombay . while in the trip and the american cripple and frustrated writer oscar ( peter coyote ) get close to nigel and and invite him to listen to his unconventional love and hate story with his french wife mimi ( emmanuelle seigner ) . oscar tell how he meet mimi in paris and all their relationship and include detail of their sexual life and along the past year . meanwhile and nigel feel a great attraction for the sexy and gorgeous mimi and in a story with tragic consequence . ` bitter moon have be release in brazil on dvd this week and and yesterday i watch it for the fifth or sixth time and since it be one of my favorite movie ever . this story and about relationship and moral and hypocrisy and behavior and love and hate and fascinate me and shake my emotion . i really believe that ` bitter moon and peter coyote and emmanuelle seigner have be not nominate to the oscar because of the problem of roman polanski with the american justice . emmanuelle seigner have her best role and performance in his career playing mimi and an adorable french woman and very much in love with oscar and who poison and destroy her . their love increase and reach the top and cross all the boundary of a sexual relationship and include those ` accept by a moralist and hypocrite society ( represent by nigel ) and question how long a love can last and make oscar bore of mimi . the problem be that their relationship be support by sex only and without friendship and respect and basic parameter for a long term everyday life of a married couple . hugh grant be perfect in the role of a typical british man and symbol of a hypocrite society . and kristin scott thomas have a minor and but very important part in the plot and play a sexually repress woman due to the behavior of her husband and who release the chain of her repression . the wonderful music of vangelis and a soundtrack of nice song and which include a brazilian pop song and conclude this masterpiece . my vote be ten . title ( brazil ) represent ` lua de fel ( ` bitter moon ) .