bitter moon

The main guideline of this blog is that it has to be the last movie I saw: no matter if it’s good or not, old or new, I loved it or hated it. Bitter Moon is not new (1992), I strangely enjoyed watching it and I cannot make my mind up if it’s a good movie…

From the first five minutes you have the impression you are watching a soft porn…Mimi who walks, talks and gets undressed just like in an 80’s video...there are blow jobs, erotic dances, milk poured out on face and breasts, kinky games. By this point I was ready to turn it off three times...but either because I had nothing else to watch or because I was curious to see where it leads, yet another time, I gave it a shot.

The story gets tragic, complicated, sick, moving. It plunges deep and it twists around a couple of times. It’s life naked, absurd, true, shocking, hopeless, violent, sarcastic…. Two couples are faced together, forced to look into each other’s life and eyes, prisoners on a cruise ship. The English are married for seven years, never had a crumb of passion…The grey sky against which you see the mad dance of two red mysterious creatures. The opposing couple are slowly lead to death by their own greedy passion.

No need to tell a whole story here. Suffice it to say that I recognized love when it bit my face again…