bitter moon manages to tantalise and tease u without ever come across a explicit nor exploitative . it study of relationship and and one relationship in particular and manage to cover some pretty far reach ground and come complete with a lot of different sort of content while but the film always keep it eye on how these instance and and the nature of the relationship and shape the person engage . if we be excited and we be to be excite at the film make skill of a certain roman polanski and how he unfold this narrative and and not at what these people go through in order to become the people we see on screen . in the broad sense of thing and bitter moon be a really straight forward tale of two people meet one other while get to know one another and advance thing far and far to the point that they become sick of the sight of one other . but it be this premise stretch out to a time that most other director would have a hard time keep to in maintain both audience interest and study . it be this premise that be actually use a a platform of great thing and something that allow a certain fascination in third party initially unaware and but also get across a certain sense of well be . it feel a if polanksi and through the character of nigel ( grant ) and fiona ( scott thomas ) whom have be happily marry for so long and be try to say that you should be thankful for what you have get and go big and well because your impulse demand you do and isn not always necessary . power play seem to be a primary ingredient in bitter moon while in what be an interesting concoction of romance and tragedy and noir and some scene of both sheer horror and terror . the film be narrate from the confines of a cruise ship in the mediterranean and bound for turkey and by an american paraplegic name oscar ( coyote ) . whatever beginning of be in control of a situation or a person seem to stem from his conversation with hugh grant nigel . over time and nigel will become more and more intrigue by what it be oscar have to say about a certain carefree dancer on the boat name mimi ( seigner ) and who be link to oscar in more way than be first apparent . but it isn not just this acquaintance a a relationship that bitter moon touch on and it break away from it primary strand of two people go through a love fuel grinder of friendship and fondness by provide u with enough material revolve around nigel and fiona marriage which be threaten by the presence of oscar and mimi . it also look at the notion of temptation and and a notion that one can become more and more intrigued about something a they spend time away from it and but hear and by way of word of mouth and as much a possible about say item . this be most apparent when nigel spend more time with oscar and hears of his deconstructing of mimi a he delve into the past . mimi and oscar relationship encompass most thing while from bdsm to urolagnia and right the on way through to the notion of know your once female lover and now full time carer and be in the room next door with another man while keep you in a sort of cuckolded state of helplessness . but rather than demonise these interest and fetish or notion while bitter moon get across a state of wrong do and a sense that the repercussion of these activity when use despairingly can bring about ill fat result and confusion and can form crack within the relationship . if the audience be place within the body of nigel a this relatively clean cut and seemingly perfectly innocent individual and then it be for the purpose of hear oscar story unfold . about a quarter of the way through the piece and mimi herself tell u and or nigel and that oscar be prone to make thing up half the time anyway . our mind be wary when we think back to an early chapter in their story when oscar and mimi bask in front of a glowing log fire whilst inhabit an apartment in paris and one that encompass a perfect view of the eiffel tower a it stand there and not so far away in that you can not see it and but not directly on it front door step . that not to say anything else oscar say in untrue while in every sense of the term and we be suck into his world while his world that he use to be the bos of while his world in which he be the writer and the creator and the would be brain behind everything . his world and in which he would submit to the presence of mimi purely to fee a curiosity and because he be able to and but would later find himself on the other foot when she submit to him while his world and in which ego drive position of power be exploit and the phrase what go around and come around do not exist not least and until now . the film be an interesting piece and an intimate character and scenario study unfold within the intimate and close in space of a boat and it cabin and just a the new year beckons and new chapter threaten to begin just as ominously a they threaten to end .