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Bitter Moon
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2462
- IMDb #1793
- Rotten Tomatoes #2278
- Letterboxd #1574
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3130
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1682
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- Metacritic Critics #2255
- Criticker #1180
- Kinopoisk #709
- AlloCiné #2736
- Trakt #2525
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 56, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 80.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A bored British couple on a cruise ship meets a mysterious American man confined to a wheelchair and his beautiful, volatile French wife. The American recounts the shocking story of their obsessive and sadomasochistic relationship in Paris, a tale of escalating passion, cruelty, and dependency that serves as a dark warning to the listeners about the dangers of extreme desire.
Details
- Director
- Roman Polanski
- Writers
- Gérard Brach, John Brownjohn, Roman Polanski
- Based on
- Evil Angels by Pascal Bruckner
- Released
- 2 September 1992
- Country
- France, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 139 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $5.0M
- Box office
- $1.9M
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