I keep trying to like this movie just because it has the name Polanski attached. I don't think the story is as stupid and hopeless as people make it out to be or that it's a pure commercial exercise. I think it's just the photography that lets it down. It looks like it was shoot for TV. It has no substance. John Cassavettes could get away with it, but then his movies over flow with emotion and power of acting, but Bitter Moon is not that kind of movie. The old rule states that you can never save a badly acted or scripted movie by just laying on a lot of beautiful photography, but with Bitter Moon that rule seems to be in reverse.
Review of Bitter Moon
