Eyes Wide Shut
(In-Person)

Screening December 3, 2021

Friday: 7:00 PM

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Holiday Detour Series

Celebrate differently this year with films that stray from the traditional holiday fare but use their seasonal settings as a backdrop for compelling character studies.

"Kubrick uses Cruise’s perfect face as a veil in and of itself, and therefore a signifier of falseness: There’s nothing perfect lying beneath his perfect features."

- The Ringer

"An erotic daydream about chances missed and opportunities avoided."

- Roger Ebert

"This is personal filmmaking as well as dream poetry of the kind most movie commerce has ground underfoot."

- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

Dealing with affairs, New York high society, and arguably poking fun at Christmas capitalism, Eyes Wide Shut is not your average holiday film.

Hollywood A-listers and former spouses, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, star in Stanley Kubrick’s final film based on the novel Rhapsody: A Dream Novel (also known as Dream Story) written in the 1920s by Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler. It follows Dr. Bill Hartford and his wife Alice who seem to have the perfect marriage until she reveals a sexual temptation that leaves him questioning their entire relationship. Bill’s confusion and agitation sends him on a one-night odyssey filled with unexpected dangers and revelations.

 

The film’s notorious production length due to Kubrick’s relentless perfectionism holds the Guiness World Record for the longest constant movie shoot. Filming took over 15 months to complete, with a 46-week period of unbroken shooting.  An artificial NYC was  constructed on location in London due to Kubrick’s fear of flying, and represents a glossy artifice some find the holiday season to have.

 

Stanley Kubrick  | Great Britain / U.S.A. | 1999  | 159 minutes

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