1992 from what shall I say, the interesting cinematic mind of director Roman Polanski.
The film is a Franco-British production starring Hugh Grant and Kristen Scott Thomas as British couple Nigel and Fiona on a cruise ship to India. On the cruise they meet a rather strange French/U.S. couple Oscar (Peter Coyote) a paraplegic and his French wife Mimi (Emmanuelle Siegner, the real life wife of Polanski).
Grant plays his usual rather bumbling Englishman persona as he becomes embroiled in a rather interesting but strange discussion over several sessions with Oscar about how he ended up in his current predicament with Mimi. Grant (Nigel) obviously finds the situation strange but the story is engrossing in a lurid sort of way.
Describing the Parisian history of failed novelist Oscar and his sexual history with Mimi. The film has some rather lurid innuendos and encounters. It is adult rated be warned.
The running time does drag on but the story is fascinating in a strange sort of way. Just how did able bodied Parisian Oscar end up a cripple on a cruise ship? Why go into intimate details about his private life with Nigel and in some moments why did Nigel stay to listen?
At the same time as all of these events poor Fiona is being neglected during the holiday of a lifetime. The end of the film reveals all the answers with quite shocking details and conclusions!
The claustrophobic nature of the cruise ship itself adds to the tension of the story. The casting of Polanskis real life wife as Mimi is a strange one. The history of Polanski himself is quite lurid itself.
I must explore his filmography. Hugh Grant never changes. Except looking 20 years younger! I've seen a few French productions and so far most seem to be quite adult in subject matter but interesting at the same time.
The film is a Franco-British production starring Hugh Grant and Kristen Scott Thomas as British couple Nigel and Fiona on a cruise ship to India. On the cruise they meet a rather strange French/U.S. couple Oscar (Peter Coyote) a paraplegic and his French wife Mimi (Emmanuelle Siegner, the real life wife of Polanski).
Grant plays his usual rather bumbling Englishman persona as he becomes embroiled in a rather interesting but strange discussion over several sessions with Oscar about how he ended up in his current predicament with Mimi. Grant (Nigel) obviously finds the situation strange but the story is engrossing in a lurid sort of way.
Describing the Parisian history of failed novelist Oscar and his sexual history with Mimi. The film has some rather lurid innuendos and encounters. It is adult rated be warned.
The running time does drag on but the story is fascinating in a strange sort of way. Just how did able bodied Parisian Oscar end up a cripple on a cruise ship? Why go into intimate details about his private life with Nigel and in some moments why did Nigel stay to listen?
At the same time as all of these events poor Fiona is being neglected during the holiday of a lifetime. The end of the film reveals all the answers with quite shocking details and conclusions!
The claustrophobic nature of the cruise ship itself adds to the tension of the story. The casting of Polanskis real life wife as Mimi is a strange one. The history of Polanski himself is quite lurid itself.
I must explore his filmography. Hugh Grant never changes. Except looking 20 years younger! I've seen a few French productions and so far most seem to be quite adult in subject matter but interesting at the same time.