One last hurrah from Kubrick evokes memories

Rating: 8/10 (7 April 2019)

Legendary director Stanley Kubrick's last film. Delivered to film distributor Warner Bros. some four days before his death after a laborious 400 day shoot.
In ways typical Kubrick. However this film has erotic undertones. Indeed the two main characters were married in real life at the time.
I have mixed views of Kubrick films. He is a cinema legend up there with the likes of Hitchcock in my opinion.
In ways this is a thriller that reminded me of a Hitchcock film with an adult undertone.
Cruise plays a doctor, Doctor Harford who is shaken by a drug fuelled revelation by his wife Alice (Nicole Kidman).
What follows is a seedy night of events as the doctor tries to come to terms with the revelation.
I say seedy. Fears of homosexuality, under age sex, prostitution, HIV infection and murder are all covered briefly as the revelation keeps flashing in his mind. That of a fantasy of his wife.
The film has excellent set design and a simple but effective musical score, including classical music that is pure Kubrick. I am thinking of 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange.
It is a film that evokes memories of some Hitchcockian mysterious screenplay.