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Eyes Wide Shut, 1999
English
UK, USA
Profile of Eyes Wide Shut
The mood of Eyes Wide Shut is sexual, contemplative, and gloomy. The plot centers around obsession, infidelity, and psychological motives. It is a drama and thriller movie. Stylistically, Eyes Wide Shut is surreal. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Eyes Wide Shut takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. The setting is New York. It happens in the 1990s. The musical score of Eyes Wide Shut is classical. It is based on a book. The movie is known for being controversial, a blockbuster, and an award winner. Note that Eyes Wide Shut includes drugs/alcohol, nudity, and sexual content.
Summary of Eyes Wide Shut
Stanley Kubrick's final film is a mature, highly intelligent, thrilling masterpiece of sexual obsession and marital (in)fidelity. Tom Cruise stars as Bill Harford, a doctor who becomes obsessed with a sexual fantasy that his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), confesses to him. Although the fantasy (involving a naval officer) occurred only in Alice's mind, Bill can't get it out of his own head; his obsession leads him through a series of potential sexual encounters, each one surrounded by the specter of death. His whole world threatens to unravel as he falls deeper and deeper into a web of mystery, lies, and deceit.
Kubrick's film breathes with vivid blues, reds, and blacks, the threat of illicit sex and death lurking around every corner. Cruise and Kidman, who are married in real life, are utterly convincing as a happy couple suddenly forced to reexamine their faith in each other. Sidney Pollack, Todd Field, Julienne Davis, Marie Richardson, and Vinessa Shaw sparkle in minor roles. Based on the novella TRAUMNOVELLE by Arthur Schnitzler, EYES WIDE SHUT is a brilliant examination of the psychological nature of sex and marriage, of faith and faithlessness, of obsession and desire. Kubrick said that his last film (he died shortly before the film opened) was "my best film ever;" while that is debatable, there is no doubting that the film is a splendid finale to a glorious career.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, USA |
| Release date: | 16 July 1999 |
| Runtime: | 159 min |
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as Dr. William 'Bill' Harford
as Alice Harford
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Critics Reviews
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Above all a masterpiece of sustained tone, a tightrope act that pays off in rich and unexpected ways.
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- by: Nathan Rabin
Variety
A riveting, thematically probing, richly atmospheric and just occasionally troublesome work, a deeply inquisitive consideration of the extent of trust and mutual knowledge possible between a man and a woman.
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- by: Todd McCarthy
Users Reviews
I feel dirty.Is this an appropriate reaction for a movie?I FEEL DIRTY.Well I'd say it is exactly the perception Kubrick intended for the audience.The thing about Kubrick is...well he tends to plant these seeds of morality inside your head and it's...
- 08.July.2010
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- by: Turner
- Turner rated this movie
10/10Must See
I disagree with Bobby: in my opinion Eyes Wide Shut is a brilliant cinematic work of art. Kubrick wasn't only a great director but a great scriptwriter as well, and made a hallucinatory fascinating film about sex, obsession and infidelity. go for it.
- 25.August.2008
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- by: Anita.Hoffman
- Anita.Hoffman rated this movie7/10Good
