The marital drama Eyes wide shut from the turn of the century possesses a present-day relevance.
The breaking down of taboos and changes in moral values, has not lost any of its intensity the yearning for intimacy in a satisfying relationship, but also its simultaneous endangering by our unconscious desires, feelings and fantasies. Arthur Schnitzler, who was a medical doctor by profession, was admired by Freud for his knowledgeable descriptions of psychic processes.
Kongenial sound: Morricone.
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Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 psychological dramaby Stanley Kubrick featuring Tom Cruise as Dr. Bill Harford, Nicole Kidman as Alice Harford, Sydney Pollack as Victor Ziegler, Todd Field as Nick Nightingale, Marie Richardson as Marion Nathanson, Sky du Mont as Sandor Szavost.