History Film / BitterMoon

* EveryoneIsSexierIfFrench: The original novel is French and so are all of its characters, but in the film, Mimi is the sole French character among the main cast and the epitome of that trope.

* IntendedAudienceReaction: The scene where Mimi and Oscar play a sex game involving him pretending to be a pig whipe animal farm noises play was cited as FanDisservice and {{Narm}} by many reviewers, including [[Creator/RogerEbert]]. This was the exact purpose of it, to show how absurd their sex life has become.

* CosmeticCatastrophe: Mimi starts overdoing makeup when she gets depressed. Oscar and [[ALadyOnEachArm his current companions]] taunt her until she looks like she's dressed for Halloween.

** [[spoiler: When Oscar's editor calls, Mimi tells him

* SpurnedIntoSuicide: [[spoiler: Oscar suspects he has done this to Mimi but eventually she does it to him]]

* EuropeansAreKinky: Mimi is a French girl and she's into kinky sex. She's a dominatrix, bounds Oscar, they visit a sex shop and so on. Oscar (who is American) is bewichted with her beauty and oozing sexuality. Oscar and Mimi are also put in contrast with Brits Fiona and Nigel who appeared very prim and proper.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Mimi starts out a rather sweet girl (if one who discovers she has a bit of a sadist side). Once [[spoiler: Oscar breaks his leg]], she becomes a rather terrifying Femme Fatale who [[spoiler: permanently paralyzes Oscar, cuts him off from all other contact, and has sex with one person in the room while he remains in the other.]].

* OperationJealousy: Mimi dancing with another man to make Oscar jealous and revive their relationship.

* CatharsisFactor: Oscar lampshades that [[spoiler: this is how his story should feel to Nigel after Mimi found him and made him his slave to get back at him]].

* UnreliableNarrator: You have to take Oscar's word that the history of his relationship with Mimi happens the way he tells it.

** One older gentleman is seen vomiting into a party hat when the ship shakes.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Mimi starts out a rather sweet girl (if one who discovers she has a bit of a sadist side). Once [[spoiler: Oscar breaks his leg]], she becomes a rather terrifying Femme Fatale who [[spoiler: permanently paralyzes Oscar, cuts him off from all other contact, and has sex with multiple people in front of him]].

A psychological thriller starring Creator/HughGrant, Creator/KristinScottThomas, Emmanuelle Seigner and Creator/PeterCoyote and directed by Creator/RomanPolanski. The script is inspired by a book with the same name. The film begins with a British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson encountering a mysterious French woman and her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story of meeting, falling madly in love then destroying each others lives. The entire film takes place aboard a holiday cruise ship sailing to Istanbul.

* UnreliableNarrator: You have to take Oscars word that the history of his relationship with Mimi happens the way he tells it.

** Fiona is see-sick and has her head in the toilet at one point.
** One older gentleman is seen vomiting into a party conic hat when the ship shakes.

* TheAtoner: One interpretation of Oscar.

* OperaGloves: Fiona wears a classy black-white gown with long gloves for the New Year's Eve party. She's a bit overdressed as others wear costumes and or casual outfits, but some are dressed as formally as Fiona. She looks gorgeous.

** [[spoiler: Nigel plans to cheat on his wife with Mimi but in the end its his with who cheats on him... with Mimi.]]

* LadyInRed: Mimi was first seen in a red polka-dot dress and Oscar calls her "a sorceress in white sneakers". Later, she often wears other red dresses that are very tight. It marks her as a Famme Fatale.

* EnglishRose: Fiona is described as a delicate beauty by Oscar. He says she has elusive, subtle kind of beauty and British charm. He also makes a point of comparing her to provocatively seductive Mimi. Fiona indeed is a pale-skinned woman and is shown to be very nice; for instance she helps messed-up Mimi or she befriends a little Indian girl.

* BondageIsBad: Mimi and Oscar are into kinky sex with lots of humiliating positions. It stars as safe, sane and consensual, but they get deeper and deeper and eventually their relationship is anything but safe or sane.
* BreakTheCutie: Oscar intentionally breaks Mimi who was a nice girl

* DomesticAbuse: Oscar is guilty of emotional abuse and in one instance domestic violence. [[spoiler: Mimi pays him back by causing him to become paralyzed, isolating him from anyone else, and making him into a cuckold]]
* DrowningMySorrows: Nigel downs a bottle of alcohol after his wife [[spoiler:was seduced by Mimi and seen going to get a room...]]

* EuropeansAreKinky: Mimi is a French girl and she's into kinky sex. She's a dominatrix, bounds Oscar, they visit a sex shop and so on.

* FemmeFatale: Mimi
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Mimi starts out a rather sweet girl (if one who discovers she has a bit of a sadist side). Once [[spoiler: Oscar breaks his leg]], she becomes a rather terrifying FemmeFatale who [[spoiler: permanently paralyzes Oscar, cuts him off from all other contact, and has sex with multiple people in front of him]].

* LadyInRed: Mimi was first seen in a red polka-dot dress and Oscar calls her "a sorceress in white sneakers". Later, she often wears other red dresses, usually very tight, in the movie.

** [[spoiler: Nigel plans to cheat on his wife with Mimi but in the end its his with who cheats on him... with Mimi]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: Oscar for Mimi

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Oscar's excuse for his behavior. Also, apparently Oscar's terrible treatment of her and her own former love for him transforms Mimi into a sadist

* NewYearHasCome: The film graduates in a New Year's Eve party and the morning after.

* OperationJealousy: Mimi dancing with another man to make Oscar jealous.
* RomanticizedAbuse
* PsychoExGirlfriend: Mimi though some might argue her actions are justified

* UnreliableNarrator: You have to take Oscars word that the history of his relationship with Mimi happens the way he tells it

** One older gentleman is seen vomiting into a party conic hat when the ship

** Fiona cheated on Oscar in front of his eyes to torture him.
** Nigel prepares to sleep with Mimi, though he struggles a bit. Fiona senses it.

A psychological thriller starring Creator/HughGrant, Creator/KristinScottThomas, Emmanuelle Seigner and Creator/PeterCoyote and directed by Creator/RomanPolanski. The script is inspired by a book with the same name. The film begins with a British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson encountering a mysterious French woman and her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story of meeting, falling madly in love then destroying each others lives. The entitr film takes place aboard a holiday cruise ship sailing to Istanbul.

* DepravedBisexual: Mimi. She seduces a wholesome woman [[]spoiler:Fiona].

A psychological thriller starring Creator/HughGrant, {{Kristin Scott Thomas}}, Emmanuelle Seigner and PeterCoyote and directed by {{Roman Polanski}}. The script is inspired by a book with the same name. The film begins with a British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson encountering a mysterious French woman and her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story of meeting, falling madly in love then destroying each others lives.

* AllMenArePerverts: Oscar is very ''perverted''. Nigel is shocked that anyone would be telling such a story to a complete stranger. He's equally shocked that he keeps listening.

* MurderSuicie: [[spoiler: Oscar shoots Mimi and then turns the gun against himself.]]

* AllMenArePerverts
* TheAtoner: One interpretation of Oscar
* BilingualBonus: There is a lot of untranslated French in the movie
* BondageIsBad
* BreaktheCutie: Oscar does this intentionally to Mimi
* ClingyJealousGirl: Mimi
* DepravedBisexual: Mimi
* DestructiveRomance

* EnglishRose: Fiona is described as this by Oscar
* EuropeansAreKinky: Averted with Nigel and Fiona but certainly not with Mimi

* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: [[spoiler: Fiona cheating on Nigel is arguably justified as he was more than willing to cheat on her]]
* InformedAttractiveness: Emanuelle Seigner is undoubtedly a striking looking woman but the way the other characters describe her you'd think she was Helen of Troy
* InstantSeduction

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Oscar intentionally humiliates Mimi by calling her other womens names in bed and later is forced to watch while she has sex with another man. Nigel plans to cheat on his* *wife with Mimi but in the end its his with who cheats on him . . . with Mimi]]

* OperationJealousy: Mimi dancing with another man to make Oscar jealous

* YourCheatingHeart

* DomesticAbuse: Oscar is guilty of emotional abuse and in one instance domestic violence

* LoveMakesYouDumb: Or at least a doormat in Mimi's case for staying with Oscar despite his abuse
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Oscars excuse for his behavior

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A psychological thriller starring {{Hugh Grant}}, {{Kristin Scott Thomas}}, Emmanuelle Seigner and PeterCoyote and directed by {{Roman Polanski}}. The script is inspired by a book with the same name. The film begins with a British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson encountering a mysterious French woman and her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story of meeting, falling madly in love then destroying each others lives.