Ponderous nonsense

Rating: 4/10 (30 April 2001)

An extraordinarily pedestrian piece from Mr Kubrick which only succeeds in being unintentionally funny. The film begins keenly enough but quickly collapses into ponderous and ludicrous hokum. The 'orgy' scenes have to be seen to be believed. If Mr K thought this was a genuine commentary on modern marriage and the status of sex and fidelity, he obviously lived away from the real world for far too long.