More evidence Polanski is overrated.

=G=

"Bitter Moon" is yet another example that Polanski has made more lemons than lemonade. Telling of a married couple on an ocean voyage who happen upon another couple which invigles them into ridiculous behavior by spinning an equally ridiculous yarn, this tiring soap opera quality flick will wear you out with its monotonous 2.2 hour run. A shabby film which opens with a curious situation, the carrot, which keeps you watching though a seemingly endless  succession of flashbacks narrated with horribly sophomoric prose, "Bitter Moon" proves many things...such as Seigner can't dance and Polanski still hasn't mastered the art of keeping his characters in character. As ashamed as I am to say it, the best thing in the flick from my perspective is all the Seigner skin. At least -it- isn't blatant fraud. (C)

score 5/10

=G= 18 October 2003

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0309839/