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The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'

Original title: Eyes Wide Shut
Year: 1999
Running time: 159 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Screenwriter: Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael. Novel: Arthur Schnitzler
Music: Varios, Jocelyn Pook
Cinematography: Larry Smith
Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Leelee Sobieski, Rade Serbedzija, Todd Field, Vinessa Shaw, Alan Cumming, Sky Dumont, Fay Masterson, Thomas Gibson, Madison Eginton, Louise J. Taylor, Stewart Thorndike, Jackie Sawiris, Peter Benson, Paul Randall, Julienne Davis, Lisa Leone, Mariana Hewett, Chris Pare, Christian Clark, Togo Igawa, Eiji Kusuhara, Sam Douglas, Angus MacInnes, Abigail Good, Brian W. Cook, Leon Vitali, Carmela Marner, Phil Davies, Cindy Dolenc, Treva Etienne, Dan TraversSee 22 More
Producer: Warner Bros., Stanley Kubrick Production, Hobby Films, Pole Star
Genre: Drama. Mystery | Sects / Extremist Cults. Erotic. Cult Movie
Synopsis: A doctor (Tom Cruise) becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter after his wife (Nicole Kidman) admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met and chastising him for dishonesty in not admitting to his own fantasies. This sets him off into unfulfilled encounters with a dead patient's daughter and a hooker. But when he visits a nightclub, where a pianist friend Nick Nightingale (Todd Field) is playing, he learns about a secret sexual group and decides to attend one of their congregations. However, he quickly learns he is in well over his head and finds he and his family are threatened.

Awards: 1999: Golden Globes: Nominated to Best Original Score

1999: César Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film

1999: Chicago Film Critics Awards: 3 Nominations, including Best Director

Critics' reviews

"For adult audiences, it creates a mesmerizing daydream of sexual fantasy (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"[It] turns into a series of haphazard revelations that come to very little."

Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly
"You experience this 159-minute movie at his deliberate pace and from his oddly distanced perspective. The effect is disorienting but mesmerizing."

Desson Thomson: The Washington Post
"Every shot and camera angle was selected with great care (...) For those who view cinema as something more substantive than an evening's diversion, the release of 'Eyes Wide Shut' is an event (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

James Berardinelli: ReelViews
"It's empty of ideas, which is fine, but it's also empty of heat.

Stephen Hunter: The Washington Post
"This is personal filmmaking as well as dream poetry of the kind most movie commerce has ground underfoot, and if a better studio release comes along this year I'll be flabbergasted (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Chicago Reader
"A film that is better at mood than substance, that has its strongest hold on you when it's making the least amount of sense."

Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
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