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hit theatres in July 1999, the world didn’t quite know what to do with it. Marketed as a steamy "erotic thriller" starring the world's biggest real-life power couple, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, audiences instead found a slow, hypnotic, and deeply unsettling odyssey. It was met with mixed reviews—some called it a "crushing disappointment" while others found it "dead-serious" and "spellbinding".

Jocelyn Pook’s haunting use of "Musica Ricercata, II" by Ligeti provides a primal, repetitive heartbeat to the film. film eyes wide shut better

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