Eyes Wide Shut

Kubrick died in his sleep during the final editing of Eyes Wide Shut, bringing a tantalizing close to his remarkable career.

Set on a sound-stage version of New York City (utterly different from the real thing seen in the earlier Killer’s Kiss), the story follows an upper-class couple’s marriage as it appears to unravel over mutual suspicions, jealousies, and possible infidelities. Based on a scandalous Austrian novel from the 1920s by Arthur Schnitzler, the film costars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman at the height of their delirious stardom as a couple. (159 mins., 35mm)