Eyes Wide Shut: A Christmas Classic

Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut was received with mixed reviews when it debuted in 1999, and in my opinion, highly underrated. It’s a terrific piece of filmmaking – haunting, intelligent, surreal, and at times even funny. I was pleased to see the following article today, courtesy of Sunset Gun:

Which brings me to the final line of Kubrick’s frequently misunderstood Eyes Wide Shut in which Nicole Kidman states rather flatly, “Fuck” — as in, that’s the answer, that’s what we need to do. A movie I’ve defended since its release, it’s a picture that deserves closer inspection and a worthy finale for the enigmatic auteur.

Read the rest of the great post here. And thank you to Roger Ebert for Twittering the above article. You can follow Mr. Ebert here.

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