Films I Love #14: Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)

Stanley Kubrick's swan song, Eyes Wide Shut, is also his defining masterpiece, widely misunderstood upon release and only in retrospect re-evaluated as a sensitive and supple treatise on love, marriage, desire, jealousy, and fantasy. Kubrick cast (then) real-life couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as Bill and Alice, a doctor and his wife who undergo a marital crisis when Alice admits, while