CinemaThe film in which Stanley Kubrick explores the marriage of Tom Cruise and Nicole KidmanThe final work of the perfectionist filmmaker’s career took more than a year to finish recording today at 08:00

One of the most celebrated filmmakers of all time, Stanley Kubrick He was responsible for directing great cinema classics. Dr. Fantastic (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980) and Born to Kill (1987) are some of the titles from his career, which ended only with his own death, at the age of 70, in 1999.

The final work of Kubrick he was Eyes Wide Shut (1999). The film starred the then couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidmanwhich was one of the most praised Hollywood in that period.

The plot explores the couple’s relationship Bill and Alice Harfordinterpreted respectively by Cruise and Kidman. After the woman admits to having almost cheated on her husband, the man becomes involved in a dangerous society that promotes orgies.

A curiosity revealed by Nicoleon the 25th anniversary of the film’s release, was the fact that Stanley having explored her marriage with Tone to develop the film. To the newspaper Los Angeles Timesthe actress said:

I believe he was exploiting it (the marriage). There were ideas he was interested in. He asked us a lot of questions.”

This does not mean, however, that the approach was limited to that. She explains:

But he had a very strong sense of the story he was telling. I remember him (Kubrick) telling me: ‘(Love) triangles are hard. You have to be careful when it comes to a triangle. Because a person can feel persecuted’. But he was aware of it and knew how to control us.”

Simple scene took weeks to record

Work with Stanley Kubrick It was never very easy for many actors and producers due to the filmmaker’s extreme perfectionism. As a result, several of the director’s films became famous for their long recording periods.

It was no different with Eyes Wide Shut. The film began filming in November 1996 and was only completed in June 1998 — including a period of 46 consecutive weeks of recording.

In the same interview, Nicole Kidman revealed that a simple scene with Tom Cruisein which its characters appear smoking marijuana in bed, took weeks to complete. She said:

It was the scene with Tone and I, in which we smoke marijuana in bed, laugh a little and have a long monologue. It took many weeks (to be finished). We rehearsed a lot in bed and he (Kubrick) didn’t like what we were doing. So we had to rework it, building it while it was being recorded. There was no need to rush. Stanley would never go over your budget. What he liked to buy was time.”

The success of the film Eyes Wide Shut

Eyes Wide Shut It was the highest-grossing film in Stanley Kubrick: There were US$162.1 million at the box office — with a budget of US$65 million. At the time of its release, it received only average reviews, but over time, it began to be better evaluated and considered another great work by the filmmaker.

Collaborated: Augusto Ikeda.