Bitter Moon

Saturday, November 9

6:30 pm

Bitter Moon
1992 / France, UK, USA / English, French with English subtitles / 139 min / 35 mm film Director: Roman Polanski

Cast: Peter Coyote, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hugh Grant, Emmanuelle Seigner
Print Source: Warner Classics

This black comedy/drama/thriller is one of Polanski’s deepest and darkest superbly layered films. Based on the novel “Lunes de Fiel” by Pascal Bruckner, it takes place on an ocean liner. Married couples: Oscar (Peter Coyote), a wheelchair-bound author, and the alluring but very dangerous Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner) meet Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas), two Continentals on their second honeymoon. Their destinies become entangled as they end up holding each other hostage in a constantly shifting balance of power. It’s a beautiful and disturbing display of interpersonal relationships and desires that run the gamut to the extreme, as Polanski has been known to do. Moving, creepy, and very sexual, Seigner (Polanski’s wife) and Coyote will leave you with characters you won’t soon forget.

LINE UP CHANGE – UPDATE FOR PETER COYOTE
Due to a work schedule conflict as of Wednesday October 30th Peter Coyote will sadly no longer be appearing at the 30th annual Olympia Film Festival on Saturday, November 9, which includes the previously scheduled fundraiser and Lifetime Achievement Award.  In a message from the actor he shared, “I was agonizing about having to cancel at such short notice and would love to be reconsidered.” OFS looks forward to seeing Peter Coyote in Olympia in the future, possibly sometime during 2014.