More than just a knockabout comedy

Rating: Null/10 (27 September 1999)

Eyes Wide Shut is a complex movie, working on more than one level simultaneously.
On the surface, it is a 1970s bedroom farce, reminiscent of a dozen teenage fantasies.
But it is more than that. Although the movie springboards from this, the use of music to diffuse any tension that might have been there, and the cunning use of cinematic cues from Hammer Horror movies disguise a movie that is actually quite thought provoking if you can stop laughing.
There are themes playing through it, themes of masks and redemption, themes of lust and betrayal, all of which are counterpointed by the use of the same musical cues again and again and, indeed, again.
Cinematically sumptuous, it is a movie to be watched and enjoyed and not forgotten.