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| Movies,
Simon Anderson,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F4
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The fact that this is, sadly, Stanley Kubrick's last movie was a secondary reason to see the movie. The main draw for me was to see Tom and Nicole's real life couple doing the not-so real life couple thing on the big screen.
From the beginning I found the whole idea intriguing that here was I watching Tom and Nicole doing what they usually do - being married to each other. It's not quite 'At home with Tom and Niccy' but all the same I couldn't help but wonder what was really Tom and Nicole and what was Alice and Bill.
EWS opens with Alice (Nicole Kidman) and Dr. Bill (Tom Cruise) dressing for a big society bash thrown by Victor (Sydney Pollack) - one of Bill's rich clients. Before you know it Nicole is being seduced by a Robert Redford Indecent Proposal type chap and Bill is cavorting with a couple of models.
Fueled by the events of the evening Alice and Bill start musing on the finer reasons why men and women even so much as talk to each other when Nicole drops a clanger about a little infidelity.
Bill's upset, the phone rings, and he's called out to a patient. And so begins a little sexual adventure for Tom. From here on it feels a lot like Martin Scorcese's After Hours only a lot less comic and a lot more adult.
The talky bit between Bill and Alice is a little longer and a little more thought provoking but is quickly left behind to make way for Tom's big sexual adventure. Which does get quite tense and exciting but the by the end I was so caught up with what Tom was up to that I'd forgotten what the film seemed to be about at the beginning.
The music's great, with a soundtrack that includes Shostakovitch and Ligeti. And there's a cute little cameo from Alan Cumming, straight out of the Beebs 'The High Life' doing his camp, thing but what he's doing here in EWS I have no idea!
By the way, there's lots of full blown sex and you also get to see movie stars naked.
UK rating:
18
US rating:
R
Stanley Kubrick1999, US
Tom Cruise, Nicol Kidman
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