Bitter Moon (1992) 720p Peter Coyote, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner

Drama | Romance | Thriller | UK/France | 139min | Director: Roman Polanski Cast: Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner British couple Fiona (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) and Nigel (Hugh Grant) are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night, Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later, he meets her crippled American husband Oscar (Peter Coyote), who tells him their story. While living in Paris for several years trying to be a writer, he becomes obsessed with a woman he met by chance on a bus. He tracks her down and they start a steamy love affair. Soon, Oscar finds himself enslaved body and soul by her love, and continues to tell Nigel the details of this relationship in various stages over several visits to Oscar's cabin. Picture the most perverse moments in the films of Roman Polanski. Then double them. This gives a rough advance idea of Polanski’s dark and twisted “Bitter Moon,” a 1992 film that began its voyage through American art houses earlier this year. Produced, directed and co-written by the wandering Pole, this tale of two married couples on a rough winter ocean voyage clearly stands as a personal work for one of the most exciting and dangerous film artists of our time. Polanski’s latest wife, exotic French bombshell Emmanuelle Seigner, gives her all and then some to her part of the story, as the love slave and later the keeper of a wheelchair-bound American played by Peter Coyote.