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Movie Review

Bitter Moon

Directed by Roman Polanski

Starring: Peter Coyote,

Emmanuelle Seigner,

Hugh Grant,

Kristin Scott Thomas

Released: 1992

Length: 139 minutes

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

People that know me know that I am a genuine movie buff. My favorite date night is dinner and a movie but I’ve been known to go to the movies all by myself. I have a large collection of movies on DVD and VHS, I subscribe to all the movie channels on Direct-TV, and I am an avid watcher of Sundance, IFC, AMC and Turner Classic Movies. Given all that, I was not surprised when Elise suggested back in 2005 that I do a review column for Predominant about films with a FemDom女性支配 — female domination theme. I figured I would have to watch a lot of Adult films but I’ve been pleasantly surprised with how many so-called mainstream movies that have FemDom女性支配 — female domination themes or at least FemDom女性支配 — female domination imagery.

How on earth did I not know about “Bitter Moon”? It was released in 1992, it starred Hugh Grant and Kristen Scott Thomas, and it was directed by none other than Roman Polanski. Perhaps I missed this film because it was theatrically released back in 1992 in Europe but neglected here in the United States. “Bitter Moon” made it to VHS in 1994. I must have overlooked it at the local Video store.

The film is also known as Lunes de fiel (The moons of Gall) in France. The script is inspired by a book with the same name, written by the French author Pascal Bruckner.