Bitter moon

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Movie
German title Bitter moon
Original title Bitter moon
Country of production Great Britain , France
original language English , French
Publishing year 1992
length 138 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Roman Polanski
script Roman Polański,
Gérard Brach ,
John Brownjohn
production Roman Polański,
Alain Sarde ,
Timothy Burrill
music Vangelis
camera Tonino Delli Colli
cut Hervé de Luze
occupation
synchronization

Bitter Moon is a British-French feature film from 1992. The film is based on the novel Bitter Moon (original title: Lunes de fell) by Pascal Bruckner .

action

The British couple Fiona and Nigel go on a trip on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean to India, where they meet the paraplegic American Oscar and his wife, the French Mimi. Nigel seems to be interested in the attractive Mimi. Oscar therefore invites Nigel to his cabin that evening, where he tells him the story of the relationship with his wife:

Oscar moved to Paris to establish himself as a writer after several failures. One day he meets Mimi on a bus ride; after a while he finds her in a restaurant where she works as a waitress. The two begin a passionate love affair, which for Oscar becomes increasingly boring and ultimately even a burden. To counteract this, the two also try bondage and sadomasochism in their love games . When Oscar separates from her, Mimi returns to him anyway, she implores him that she cannot live without him and that she wants to stay with him at all costs. Oscar agrees, but treats her badly and humiliates her in public in order to get rid of her. When he becomes pregnant, he makes it clear to her that he is a bad father. Mimi has an abortion performed. When she recovered, Oscar gave her a plane trip to the Caribbean as a present, but left the plane shortly before take-off.

Oscar plunged into the Parisian nightlife and had countless one-night stands over the next two years until he was injured in a traffic accident. Mimi has since returned and visits him surprisingly in the hospital. She throws Oscar, who is fixed with a broken leg, out of bed, so that he is paralyzed from the waist down. Oscar is now in a wheelchair and depends entirely on her help. Mimi now begins to take revenge on him. A power struggle develops between them, with the power-impotence games sometimes crossing taboos, such as an act of love by Mimi within earshot of Oscar. On his birthday, when he was plagued by suicidal thoughts, Mimi gave him a pistol. Despite everything, Oscar and Mimi seem to be dependent on each other and eventually get married.

Fiona and Nigel, initially just spectators, are increasingly involved. Despite the stories and warnings from Oscar, Nigel seems to have fallen in love with Mimi and is dancing with her at a New Year's party. Fiona, who was brought in by Oscar, watches the scene. She is disappointed with Nigel and now dances with Mimi herself, whereby they get closer. When it gets increasingly stormy at sea, the party ends prematurely. Fiona leaves the party with Mimi. Frustrated, Nigel retires to his cabin to get drunk. When he later wakes up alone, he looks worriedly after Fiona. He finds Fiona in Oscar's cabin, where she sleeps naked next to Mimi. Oscar tells him that he watched the two women have passionate sex with each other. Nigel gets angry and grabs Oscar by the throat, but Oscar points a gun at him. Oscar lets go of Nigel, shoots the sleeping Mimi several times and then kills himself with a shot in the mouth. As the two bodies are carried out of the ship, Fiona and Nigel embrace, shaken by the incident.

synchronization

The German synchronization was commissioned by Deutsche Synchron , under the direction of Karlheinz Brunnemann in Berlin .

role actor German speakers
Nigel Dobson Hugh Grant Patrick Winczewski
Fiona Dobson Kristin Scott Thomas Christin Marquitan
Mimi (Micheline Bouvier) Emmanuelle Seigner Daniela Hoffmann
Oscar Benton Peter Coyote Reinhard Kuhnert
Mr. Singh Victor Banerjee Norbert Langer

Reviews

"Polanski directs it without compromise or apology, and it's a funny thing how critics may condescend to it, but while they're watching it you could hear a pin drop."

"Polanski's direction is without compromise or justification and it is strange to see the condescension of some critics, but you could hear a pin drop while they were watching the film."

- Roger Ebert : Chicago Sun Times

Remarks

  • The title Bitter Moon (literally "bitter moon") is the opposite of the English term honeymoon (literally "honey moon"), which means honeymoon . A real play on words is the French title, which changes the common expression lune de miel (again “honey moon, honeymoon”) to the similarly sounding lunes de fell “months of bile”.
  • James Woods was originally intended for the part of the Oscar .
  • Emmanuelle Seigner has been Roman Polański's wife since 1989 .
  • As a side project to the film music, Vangelis also realized the album The City in 1990 , in which Polański and Seigner have guest appearances.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bitter Moon. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on August 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Roger Ebert: Bitter Moon . In: rogerebert.suntimes.com . April 8, 1994 ( online )