Tom Cruise

Nicole Kidman

Sydney Pollack

Marie Richardson

Rade Šerbedžija

Todd Field

Vinessa Shaw

Alan Cumming

Sky du Mont

Fay Masterson

Leelee Sobieski

Thomas Gibson

Madison Eginton

Julienne Davis

Jackie Sawiris

Leslie Lowe

Peter Hans Benson

Michael Doven

Louise J. Taylor

Stewart Thorndike

Randall Paul

Lisa Leone

Kevin Connealy

Mariana Hewett

Dan Rollman

Gavin Parry

Chris Pare

Adam Lias

Christian Clarke

Kyle Whitcombe

Gary Goba

Florian Windorfer

Togo Igawa

Eiji Kusuhara

Sam Douglas

Angus MacInnes

Abigail Good

Brian W. Cook

Leon Vitali

Carmela Marner

Phil Davies

Cindy Dolenc

Clark Hayes

Treva Etienne

Colin Angus

Karla Ashley

Kate Charman

James Demaria

Tony De Sergio

Janie Dickens

Laura Fallace

Vanessa Fenton

Georgina Finch

Peter Godwin

Joanna Heath

Lee Henshaw

Ateeka Poole

Adam Pudney

Sharon Quinn

Ben De Saumserez

Emma Lou Sharratt

Paul Spelling

Matthew Thompson

Dan Travers

Russell Trigg

Kate Whalin

Cate Blanchett

Jerson David Ambion

Shelsie Blake

John N. Campbell

Emilio D'Alessandro

Paul Desbois

Donna Ewin

Sam Heydon

Alex Hobbs

Christiane Kubrick

Katharina Kubrick

Taylor Murphy

Graham Skidmore

Stanley Kubrick

Frederic Raphael

Jan Harlan

Jocelyn Pook

Larry Smith

Denise Chamian

Leslie Tomkins

Roy Walker

Arthur Schnitzler

Larry Celona

Nigel Galt

Michael A. Carter

Anthony Cleal

Paul Conway

Graham V. Hartstone

Marit Allen

Timothy Everest

Robert McCann

Rhun Francis

Becky Hunt

Kevin Phipps

John Fenner

Terry Wells Sr.

Terry Wells Jr.

Ronnie Phillips

Paul Toomey

Manuel Harlan

Martin Hume

Melanie Viner Cuneo

Claire Ferguson

Iain Eyre

Becki Ponting

Steve Clarke

Malik Hassan Sayeed

Adrian Toynton

Kerry Warn

Graham Povey

Charles Staffell

Jacqueline Durran

Joe Allen

Craig Bloor

Pete Cavaciuti

Toby E. Cook

Ron Emery

Rawdon Hayne

Arthur Jafa

Nick Penn

Anthony Richards

Keith Roberts

Shawn White

Dean Wilkinson

Jason Wrenn

Elizabeth Ziegler

Abdul-Majeed Moulvi

Nancy Thompson

Trevor Collins

Claus Wehlisch

Tobin Hughes

Simon McNair Scott

Angus More Gordon

Didier de Cottigniers

Steve Mair

Annie Simpson

Rachel Hunt

Lara Sargent

C.J. Scheiner

Yolande Snaith

John Trehy

Stella Wycherley

Drama

Thriller

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Eyes Wide Shut

Warner Bros. Pictures

Pole Star

Hobby Films

Kubrick Productions

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

Filipe Manuel Neto

**It doesn't matter if it's Stanley Kubrick's best or worst. It's a movie that makes you think.**

Stanley Kubrick is one of those filmmakers who didn't make a lot of films. Over the course of his forty-year career, he only made thirteen feature films. Very little... However, if we look closely, almost all of them are familiar and immediately entered the pantheon of cinema. They are not perfect films, nor was Kubrick perfect no matter how methodical he was, and there are films of his that are unpalatable (I've already written that in some of them). But each of them, for its reasons, is its own, a very different work. In this film, he makes a case study around desire, sexuality and how we, individually or as a couple, deal with it.

The script follows a doctor and his wife. An apparently happy couple who, after a party where they both flirted with other people (without consequences), have a fight where she, perhaps to take away his self-confidence, confesses that she wanted to have another man, some time ago. The revelation leaves the doctor speechless. That night, he doesn't seem to know what he wants: he desires other women, but refuses their advances. But when a pianist friend tells him about a strange party, full of beauties, where he has to play blindfolded, he wants to see it up close. Yes, the party was a gigantic chic orgy, with touches of unholy religious ritual to accentuate the sense of sin and lust. Of course, the unwary guy ends up being discovered and unmasked… and from there, the film becomes denser, with the character increasingly afraid of what might happen to him.

The film makes us think a lot about sexuality, monogamy, the importance we give to marital fidelity. I don't know what it was like in 1999, but today it's common to see couples in open relationships, or relatively discreet saunas and swing clubs that throw liberal parties with some regularity. There is still a universe apart – private parties, organized by social networks and for guests only – and it is true that the rich and famous are much more demanding with the reservation of their intimacy, especially when they do naughty things. But what the film proposes to us is, not so much the refusal of monogamy, but that we think about the way we give up all other sexual partners when we really fall in love. The notion of personal sacrifice runs through the entire film (a woman who gives up an erotic fantasy for love, another who proposes to die in order to save an innocent, a man who refuses sex because he is married) and indicates that the best bonds we create in life involve choices and sacrifices in exchange for something greater. In fact, to be happy in a marriage, you need to keep your eyes wide shut to temptations.

With a very good and well written story, the film develops the characters very well and allows us to get to know them. For that, the film doesn't mind taking a slower pace that can leave some audiences exasperated. Decisive was the choice of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman for the main roles. At the time, they were Hollywood's pretty couple, and there's no doubt that Kubrick knew how to exploit their enormous personal and intimate chemistry, transporting it to the characters and the film. In fact, this may not be Kubrick's best film (that's relative!) but, for me, it's Cruise's best film so far.

Technically, the film has many positives. Kubrick gave an almost maniacal attention to detail and took his time filming. And we can see how each scene was shot in a detailed way, with the camera moving precisely, cuts surgically made, very long and very well edited scenes, taking advantage of the excellent cinematography and sets (where, of course, the mansion of the party stands out). Even more important is the way the director was able to work with the environment and the tension, growing and almost palpable. There is a lot of nudity in this film, including frontal nudity (Kidman herself did scenes where she is practically naked) and some sex scenes that, if not explicit, are very visual. Even so, the film is not, surprisingly, very erotic. I think the director didn't want sex to distract us or cut that tension he was looking for. As for the sound and soundtrack, I think it does its job well, but I didn't find it particularly remarkable.

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