No dream is ever just a dream.
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
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- Filipe Manuel Netoon TMDB · Aug 202210/10
**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 tell
Read the whole review on TMDB - AlfaVitaY2Kon TMDB · Jun 202610/10
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) – Kubrick’s final masterpiece. A hypnotic journey into the hidden world of elite secret power. Kubrick subtly exposes the terrifying reality of secret societies, their links to sex slavery and pedophilia, not through lectures or obvious dialogues, but through chilling atmosphere, ritual precision, and subtle images. The danger is woven into every frame, visible only to those paying close attention. Most normies see an “erotic thriller”. The intelligent feel the danger. Kubrick films orgies with the most beautiful naked bodies imaginable and masterfully makes them completely asexual. The nudity is clinical, geometric, drained of heat, a cold ceremony of raw, aseptic bodies rather than erotica. Sex becomes ritualized, commodified, and instinctively alienating. It’s genius level control of atmosphere. The only other director who pulled off something similar is Robert Altman in Pret a Porter (1994), where he had top models walking completely naked on a catwalk and turned it into something completely asexual, just another absurd raw and sterile human spectacle. P.S. A conspiracy theory claims that Kubrick was murdered right before finishing the final cut editing in
Read the whole review on TMDB - CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20267/10
Physician to the well-heeled "Bill" (Tom Cruise) and his wife "Alice" (Nicole Kidman) are enjoying the Christmas season by attending the usual whilrl of social engagements hosted by his wealthier clients. Tonight they are heading to a swanky affair as guests of "Victor" (Sydney Pollack) but instead of just going through the polite motions of an evening, the doctor finds himself rolling up his sleeves and so leaving his wife to explore a little more of the party than she might otherwise have experienced. When they get home, she is distinctly unsettled and they embark on a conversation that shines quite a light on the somewhat pedestrian nature of their sex lives. Both have their fantasies and to be honest, they rarely include each other. Maybe an open marriage is a solution? Well they certainly don't discuss or agree to that, but upon his return to work he starts to notice women in an entirely different way to that he was used to. He's not just looking for an hookup though, and his interest is piqued when his university pal "Nick" (Todd Field) tells him of ultra-exclusive parties where everyone has to wear a mask and where more traditional morals are left in the car park. Thanks to
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Cast
- Tom CruiseDr. William Harford
- Nicole KidmanAlice Harford
- Sydney PollackVictor Ziegler
- Marie RichardsonMarion
- Rade ŠerbedžijaMilich
- Todd FieldNick Nightingale
- Vinessa ShawDomino
- Alan CummingDesk Clerk
- Sky du MontSandor Szavost
- Fay MastersonSally
Crew
- Stanley KubrickDirector
- Frederic RaphaelScreenplay
- Stanley KubrickScreenplay
- Arthur SchnitzlerNovel
- Larry SmithDirector of Photography
- Jocelyn PookOriginal Music Composer
- Nigel GaltEditor
- Brian W. CookProducer
- Stanley KubrickProducer
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