Eyes Wide Shut

Eyes Wide Shut is the last feature-length film of Stanley Kubrick, left in 1999. Film adaptation of the News dreamed ( Traumnovelle , 1925) of the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler to which Kubrick wanted to remain faithful and which raises the question: What the other? Who is the woman or the loved man? Which is this being which I chose and who chose me, who is thus nearest and at the same time most foreign for me?

The film puts in scene in the main roles the couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

Synopsis

After the consent by his wife (Nicole Kidman) whom it failed to yield to the temptation of another man, Doctor Hardford (Tom Cruise), obsessed by this revelation, loses in the New Yorkean night . He then returns visit to a friend pianist in a night club, this last speaks to him about sexual evenings secret and crested, Doctor Hardford will be trained in one evening orgiaque masked.

A voyage enters reality and the imaginary one.

Distribution

Tom Cruise (Doctor William “Bill” Harford)
Nicole Kidman (Alice Harford)
Madison Eginton (Helena Harford)
Jackie Sawiris (Roz)
Sydney Pollack (Victor Ziegler)
Marie Richardson (Marion)
Leslie Lowe (Illona)
Peter Benson (Bandleader)
Vinessa Shaw (Domino)
Roads Serbedzija (Mr. Milich)
Leelee Sobieski (the girl of Milich)
Sky Dumont (Sandor Szavost)
Todd Field (Nick Nightingale)

Film analyzes

Kubrick having died shortly after to have finished film, and while the film was presented and left in rooms in its original version, this one was not free of polemics on behalf of criticisms and the fans, those asserting that work would have probably undergone changes if its realizer had remained in life. The film accepted in addition, at its exit, of the shared reactions, in particular taking into consideration sound subjacent Puritanisme.

Around film

the Co-scenario writer of film, Frederic Raphael, will tell in a book discussed its relation with Kubrick during the writing of film. Two years with Kubrick is published in French at Plon in 1999.
a film which did not accept any prohibition at its exit in France, contrary with other countries. It was withdrawn completely from the poster in Singapore for example.
the scene of orgy of film was censured in the version distributed to the United States.
the scenes of ritual and orgy were filmed in a large house having belonged to a Indian Maharajah exiled in England.
of the final quality of its films under all their aspects, Kubrick entrusted the realization of the French version to the director Pascale Ferran.
to reach the “masked reception”, the password is “Fidelio”. It is also the single opera of Ludwig van Beethoven, whose topic is the marital love,
In the scene of the ritual, the incantations extracted the Bhagavad Gita (Hindoue prayer) are in Rumanian,
the woman of Stanley, (Christiane Kubrick) briefly appears behind Tom Cruise in the Sonata Coffee.
the name of Dr. Harford (Dr. Florestan in the book), is an amalgam of the name of the actor Harrison Ford, who was at the origin to hold the role.
Harvey Keitel was at the origin to play the part of Victor Ziegler played by Sydney Pollack.
Jennifer Jason Leigh played the part of Marion but as Kubrick wanted to make turn over scenes to the actress who was occupied by Existenz of David Cronenberg, it engaged Marie Richardson for all to turn over.
This film was presented in opening Mostra of Venice in 1999.
the turning of film lasted nearly 400 days.
When Hartford comes to return the costume, the owner him " propose" his/her daughter. One can evoke a wink with Lolita (another film of Kubrick).

Sources

Eyes Wide Shut or the strange labyrinth by Diane Morel with the University Presses of France, an analysis of film.
Julie-Anne To arrange-Beauregard and Flavie Leger-Roy, UQAM, 2006

External bonds

'' Eyes Wide Shut '' on Internet Movie Database
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