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Genres:
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Drama /
Mystery /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Stanley Kubrick
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Actors:
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Jackie Sawiris,
Sky Dumont,
Julienne Davis,
Madison Eginton,
Leslie Lowe,
Peter Benson,
Michael Doven,
Louise J. Taylor,
Stewart Thorndike,
Randall Paul,
Lisa Leone,
Tom Cruise,
Nicole Kidman,
Sydney Pollack,
Todd Field
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Duration:
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159 min.
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Rating:
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(7.2/10)292.5
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Plot Summary:
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Stanley Kubrick's ultimate film is a full-grown, highly au fait, enlivening masterpiece of sexual obsession and marital (in)fidelity. Tom Sail stars as Jaws Harford, a doctor who becomes obsessed with a sexy fantasy that his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), confesses to him. Although the fantasy (involving a naval bureaucrat) occurred only in Alice's mind, Bill can't get it incorrect of his own head; his fixation leads him into done with a series of implied sensuous encounters, each ditty surrounded by the specter of cessation. His whole world threatens to unravel as he falls deeper and deeper into a trap of mystery, lies, and dishonesty.
... Kubrick's film breathes with clear blues, reds, and blacks, the menace of illicit sex and extermination lurking around every corner. Cruise and Kidman, who are married in real individual, are perfectly convincing as a beneficial couple suddenly studied to reexamine their faith in each other. Sidney Pollack, Todd Addict, 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 spiritual variety of sex and marriage, of faith and faithlessness, of id‚e fixe and desideratum. Kubrick said that his matrix picture (he died shortly the film opened) was 'my upper-class coat ever'; while that is debatable, there is no doubting that the film is a nonpareil finale to a glorious m‚tier.
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Eyes Wide Shut
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman rehearse for their real life break-up in Stanley Kubrick's portentous final masterpiece
Based on early 20th-century Viennese writer Arthur Schnitzler's Dream Novella and transferred to modern-day New York, Eyes Wide Shut has suffered a poor reputation over the years; possibly, audiences had unrealistic expectations for a movie already known to be Stanley Kubrick's final work - even before its eventual release. Speculation about how explicit the film's sexual content might be, combined with a legendarily glacial and secretive filming schedule, possibly didn't help matters. What had started earlier that same summer of 1999, when a Star Wars-hungry public were introduced to Jar Jar Binks and a blue, Yiddish hummingbird, cul...
difficult to slot
it was difficult to pause or stop the movie inspite of the slow pace. speilberg was right in the special features interview when he said stanley kubricks movies are difficult to pause or stop. the film has many layers to it and one can come up with lots of questions after the end.
the work by the director is effortlessly top class.
Tom Cruise struggles to put in the correct expressions.
Nicole is relatively better.
The visuals are stunning.
Its difficult to slot this film - erotica, psychological thriller.
It incites to look out for the directors other works.
Film is essentially a directors medium and this film reinforces that. The super stars pale in comparison with him.
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