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Something curious happened in New York around Christmastime This was a fate no one could have predicted back in July , when it was released to dismissive reviews and disappointing box office, owing in part to a fully revved-up Hollywood hype machine that touted the sex appeal of stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and prepared audiences for a much different film. Eyes Wide Shut was accused of being out of touch at the time, but Kubrick was clearly after something stranger and more captivating. The film stock itself had been pushed two stops and had taken on a grainy, otherworldly look. Some scenes had been lit solely with Christmas lights. And then there was the deliberate, trancelike cadence of the performances.

ChiaroScuro presents. USA click to enlarge. The film is resolutely old-fashioned whenever illicit sexual contact begins Eyes Wide Shut is no masterpiece, but it is endlessly fascinating.

Eyes Wide Shut is a erotic mystery psychological drama film directed, produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. The film follows the sexually charged adventures of Dr. Bill Harford, who is shocked when his wife, Alice, reveals that she had contemplated having an affair a year earlier. He embarks on a night-long adventure, during which he infiltrates a massive masked orgy of an unnamed secret society. Kubrick obtained the filming rights for Dream Story in the s, considering it a perfect text for a film adaptation about sexual relations.

Its true meaning is tied in with the genocide of Native Americans, because of the imagery throughout associated with the American West — for instance, cans of Calumet Baking Powder noticeable in the background of two central scenes — because a calumet is a ceremonial pipe, and the cans featured the image of a Native American, therefore American imperialism is the subtext of the film, duh. And so on and so forth. All his films after and including …followed a similar vein, with Kubrick getting involved in everything that went on.