Bitter Moon Summary

In the following review, Johnson asserts that Bitter Moon, effectively fluctuates between parody and melodrama, despite Polanski's penchant for “bad taste and carnal excess.” I... Read more

In the following review, Simon faults Bitter Moon as a work of soft-core pornography lacking in genuine eroticism, effective performances, or skilled direction. One might pass over Bitter Moon, in ... Read more

In the following essay, Gritten comments on the explicit sexual content in Bitter Moon and discusses the film with Polanski and his actors. Roman Polanski is on the run. Here he is at the Studios B... Read more

In the following review, Billson asserts that Bitter Moon, while undoubtedly a male fantasy, accurately expresses the power-dynamics of real relationships in the modern world. This has not been a g... Read more