Eyes Wide Shut
- sombre
- slow-burn
- inventive
- cold
- signature
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
Our read · Eyes Wide Shut (1999) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Eyes Wide Shut
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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