Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Country: US/GB
Technical: col 159m
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack
Synopsis:
One Christmas in New York a doctor is led to doubt his domestic happiness by his wife's frank words and sets off into the night on a series of quasi-sexual encounters. But sexual misadventure carries far more hazards than pleasures.
Review:
A curious swansong for a great filmmaker, though one which is liable to be dismissed as an old man's lasciviousness disguised as adult morality drama. In fact it is more than that, for in its Kafkaesque odyssey through the unfamiliarly familiar New York (an effect achieved through exaggerated performance and adherence to the Freudian source novel) he achieves an oneiric intensity for longer than any would dare attempt.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col 159m
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack
Synopsis:
One Christmas in New York a doctor is led to doubt his domestic happiness by his wife's frank words and sets off into the night on a series of quasi-sexual encounters. But sexual misadventure carries far more hazards than pleasures.
Review:
A curious swansong for a great filmmaker, though one which is liable to be dismissed as an old man's lasciviousness disguised as adult morality drama. In fact it is more than that, for in its Kafkaesque odyssey through the unfamiliarly familiar New York (an effect achieved through exaggerated performance and adherence to the Freudian source novel) he achieves an oneiric intensity for longer than any would dare attempt.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col 159m
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack
Synopsis:
One Christmas in New York a doctor is led to doubt his domestic happiness by his wife's frank words and sets off into the night on a series of quasi-sexual encounters. But sexual misadventure carries far more hazards than pleasures.
Review:
A curious swansong for a great filmmaker, though one which is liable to be dismissed as an old man's lasciviousness disguised as adult morality drama. In fact it is more than that, for in its Kafkaesque odyssey through the unfamiliarly familiar New York (an effect achieved through exaggerated performance and adherence to the Freudian source novel) he achieves an oneiric intensity for longer than any would dare attempt.