Something curious happened in New York around Christmastime This was a fate no one could have predicted back in July , when it was released to dismissive reviews and disappointing box office, owing in part to a fully revved-up Hollywood hype machine that touted the sex appeal of stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and prepared audiences for a much different film. Eyes Wide Shut was accused of being out of touch at the time, but Kubrick was clearly after something stranger and more captivating. The film stock itself had been pushed two stops and had taken on a grainy, otherworldly look. Some scenes had been lit solely with Christmas lights. And then there was the deliberate, trancelike cadence of the performances.
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So began their great adventure together making Eyes Wide Shut , the eternally divisive psycho-sexual meditation released 20 years ago in the UK this week. A still potent mystique hangs over Eyes Wide Shut. When the glamorous wife Nicole Kidman of a successful doctor Cruise confesses the desire she felt for a stranger months previously, he plunges down a whirlpool of jealousy.