Bitter Moon

(1992)

★ 7.1 IMDb · 877 votes

Genres: Thriller, Drama, Romance

Year: 1992

Runtime: 139 мин

Country: France, United Kingdom

Director: Роман Полански

Cast: Питер Койот, Эмманюэль Сенье, Хью Грант, Кристин Скотт Томас, Victor Banerjee, Sophie Patel, Патрик Альбенк, Smilja Mihailovitch, Leo Eckmann, Luca Vellani

Plot

A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.

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.