One
of the finest films ever made...
An exploration of a marriage from both
perspectives, using dreams, desires, fantasies,
truth, deceit, trust, fear & love. This is a
story of a marriage in metamorphosis.
Tom Cruise is magnificent and Nicole Kidman
gives one of the best performances I have ever
seen. The casting of these two was inspired and
their resulting 'real-life' divorce is a
somewhat sad and ironic post-script to the
nature and power of this film.
Stanley Kubrick passed away just before this
film's release and this classic is the
exclamation point on a unique and virtually
unparalleled directorial career.
"This is a grown-up movie,
in its humor and in its wisdom about life. You
need to have lived a little to understand its
complexities." - An applicable quote from
a Roger Ebert Review.
"The best film made in the
decade of the 90's." - Martin Scorsese.
"A precisely modulated and
mostly mesmerizing 2¾ -hour suspense movie, in
part because it's one of the most bravely
disturbing screen works ever attempted about
thoughts withheld by even the most devoted
marriage partners and the ramifications of
voicing them." - Mike Clark
"A movie with the power
and quality of dreams." - Film.com
"A riveting, thematically
probing, richly atmospheric and just
occasionally troublesome work, a deeply
inquisitive consideration of the extent of trust
and mutual knowledge possible between a man and
a woman." - Variety
"This is a remarkably
gripping, suggestive, and inventive piece of
storytelling that, like Kubrick's other work, is
likely to grow in mystery and intensity over
time." - J. Rosenbaum
©
Written by TC Candler
Richard
Propes' Comment
Kidman is
mesmerizing here, but Cruise disappoints. I've
never quite had the Kubrick obsession that many
critics seem to have. He was a remarkably
intelligent filmmaker and, to be honest, I'm
just not that remarkably intelligent. I'm your
average joe, and I can't fathom the average joe
cares for this flick on a magnificent level.
Jacob
Hall's Comment
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