{"product_id":"eyes-wide-shut-by-michel-chion-9780851709321","title":"Eyes Wide Shut","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStanley Kubrick died on 7 March 1999 at his Hertfordshire home, having finished the editing of his last film. \u003cem\u003eEyes Wide Shut\u003c\/em\u003e was released later that year. Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 Viennese novel \u003cem\u003eDream Story\u003c\/em\u003e, relocated and updated to contemporary Manhattan, \u003cem\u003eEyes Wide Shut\u003c\/em\u003e stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a prosperous couple whose marriage is tested in the aftermath of a series of sinister events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe film baffled many of its first audiences. It had all the lavish attention to detail of a Kubrick film, but it seemed slow, enigmatic, too much of a dream. Michel Chion's extraordinary study of \u003cem\u003eEyes Wide Shut\u003c\/em\u003e makes the case that it is one of Kubrick's masterpieces and a fitting testament.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo appreciate this, though, it is necessary to look at what happens on the screen without bringing preconceptions to bear. The film needs to be taken at face value. Looked at this way, \u003cem\u003eEyes Wide Shut\u003c\/em\u003e reveals itself to be a deeply moving film about characters who are not so different from real people, a film about life in which questions of meaning and motive lose their value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596370329836,"sku":"9780851709321","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/a07dda86f080f73a5e8aeea36929c01c.jpg?v=1777929768","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/eyes-wide-shut-by-michel-chion-9780851709321","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}