Eyes Wide Shut podcast — OVERINVESTED

This week, Gavia is joined by guest-host Claire Biddles to discuss Stanley Kubrick’s acclaimed erotic psychodrama Eyes Wide Shut (1999), starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as Bill and Alice Hartford, a married couple in 1990s New York. After Alice reveals that she fantasized about having an affair, Bill embarks on a night of sexual experimentation.

Topics include Tom and Nicole's marriage and divergent acting styles, the film's subversion of erotic thriller expectations, its depiction of gender roles in a straight marriage, and its fascinating legacy within Kubrick's career.

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Links

“The Joke's On Him: Tom Cruise and Eyes Wide Shut,” Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com

"Leon Vitali Obituary," Ryan Gilbey, the Guardian