Bfi film: Eyes Wide Shut

A man driven by sexual obsession stumbles into an intricate web of jealousy, confusion and illicit nocturnal activities, in Stanley Kubrick’s final film.

Director - Stanley Kubrick
With
Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Sydney Pollack
UK-USA 1999. 159min

When Bill Harford’s wife confesses to fantasies involving another man, he is plunged into an obsessive crisis of desire and dysfunction. Relocating the events of Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Dream Story from early 20th-century Vienna to contemporary Manhattan, Kubrick’s final film lures its characters into a murky underworld, crafting an unflinching portrait of a relationship falling apart under the weight of buried feelings, resentments and miscommunication.

I am in seat H9.

This is part of a double bill Saturday!