Thge master of cinema pushed a great actress

Rating: 10/10 (11 May 2005)

Everybody knows that Kubrik is the one of the great masters in the history of cinema. And his last film is a great final and nothing else.
With this film, I would say the acting of Kidman have to become another dimension. What Jane Champion or Gus van Saint never have shown Kubriks show us from her in 10 minutes. The dialog between Kidman and Cruise after they have smoke a joint is so real and important that much of my friends tell me that they were angry about her in this scene. "She is searching a conflict" they say. But it is the truth??? I think that it is not the problem. The problem is that her husband in this film and with him many people don't understand anything of her fantasies. Or they don't want understand. I think what the wife is saying in this scene to her husband is not a provocation - it's a real problem for her, too.
With her fantasies his jealous run begin - the motivation for the complete film is given and Kubrik also as Schnitzler make a story about a man. But in the beginning and again in the end in this film the scenes with Kidman are so good that here at the first time everybody can see how much she can.
Here and before in "Portrait of a young lady" in the end slumbers fill her eyes - and the tragic dimension of life become the result of it all. They details of it you must see by yourself, but never forget that they stopping of this fantasies is impossible. Because so you can understand that the end is not the end, because there is no end - for her - for him it is possible. Thank you for reading.