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A psychological thriller starring Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner and Peter Coyote 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.
Tropes used in Bitter Moon include:
- All Men Are Perverts
- Bondage Is Bad
- Break the Cutie: Oscar does this intentionally to Mimi
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Mimi
- Depraved Bisexual: Mimi
- Destructive Romance
- Domestic Abuse: Oscar is guilty of emotional abuse and in one instance domestic violence
- English Rose: Fiona is described as this by Oscar
- Europeans Are Kinky: Averted with Nigel and Fiona but certainly not with Mimi
- Femme Fatale: Mimi
- Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: Fiona cheating on Nigel is arguably justified as he was more than willing to cheat on her
- Informed Attractiveness: Emanuelle Seigner is undoubtedly a striking looking woman but the way the other characters describe her you'd think she was Helen of Troy
- Instant Seduction
- Kavorka Man: Oscar although you only have his word that he had sex with as many women as he says he did
- Laser-Guided Karma: 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
- Love At First Sight: Oscar for Mimi
- Love Hurts
- Love Makes You Crazy
- Love Makes You Dumb: Or at least a doormat in Mimi's case for staying with Oscar despite his abuse
- Love Makes You Evil: Oscars excuse for his behavior
- Mad Love
- Masochism Tango
- Operation: Jealousy: Mimi dancing with another man to make Oscar jealous
- Romanticized Abuse
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: Mimi though some might argue her actions are justified
- Spurned Into Suicide: Oscar suspects he has done this to Mimi but eventually she does it to him
- Unreliable Narrator: You have to take Oscars word that the history of his relationship with Mimi happens the way he tells it
- Your Cheating Heart