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Eyes Wide Shut
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Eyes Wide Shut
Stanley Kubrick's final movie which muses on the theme of marriage, fidelity and intimacy. Dr Bill Harford and his lovely wife Alice, have a wonderful life of contented luxury, with a loving daughter and a beautiful New York apartment. But Bill is shocked out of his complacency when Alice reveals a story about herself which makes him think again about the security of his life. Hurt by his wife's revelation Bill goes out into the night determined to have a wild sexual experience...
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EYES WIDE SHUT
author: ; publisher: WARN
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WARNER HOME VIDEO Eyes Wide Shut [1999]
Visually beautiful, Stanley Kubrick's last completed film <I>Eyes Wide Shut</I> blends the sinister, the sensual and the clinical in a combination that is rather too personal and idiosyncratic to be entirely successful as the final statement about gender and sexuality he intended it to be. Adapted by Frederick Raphael from the <I>Dream Story</I> of Freud's friend Schnitzler, it shows a young successful couple confront the dangers that lurk beyond monogamy; Nicole Kidman's Alice does little more than fantasise, flirt and dream, but even this causes guilt and pain. Doctor Bill (Tom Cruise) does rather more--he visits a whore, crashes an orgy and continues to ask questions when warned off; if no disaster ensues, and it is possible that two people die as a result, it is only luck that averts it. <p> Much of the best of what is here is to be found in occasional moments of stillness--Cruise walking through a morgue--or wild comedy--Cruise's attempt to hire a costume in the middle of the night interrupts major shenanigans at the fancy-dress shop. Cruise and Kidman do what they can with material that never means as much as it aspires to, and the standout performance is Sydney Pollack's, as a worldly wise client. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Eyes Wide Shut</I> on DVD is presented in lavish Dolby Sound that makes the most of the obsessive Ligeti piano piece and Shostakovich waltz that dominate the score, and in the 1.33:1 ratio that was Kubrick's considered choice. It has subtitles in English, Arabic, Bulgarian and Rumanian, two TV spots and informative interviews with Kidman and Cruise, as well as with Steven Spielberg, to whom Kubrick had talked at length about his artistic intentions. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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Warner esp Eyes Wide Shut
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