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Discover the best of the city, first. We already have this email. Try another? Want more film? The best British films. Read more. The latest films in cinema. Worse, Kubrick deliberately shunned including the Tom Cruise charisma fans expected in his performance, raising the question of why he cast Cruise at all.

Why ask the biggest star in the world to carry your film and then hide his face under a mask for 20 minutes? The whole film feels like an exercise in theatricality, as though Dr. Bill is not a person but a prop. With Cruise hidden in a mask and robe, the intention is to hide his individuality in the service of a larger ritualistic machine.

Measured against any of his previous screen roles, his acting reads as terrible. However, the terribleness of his performance translates into a tricky logic puzzle. His films had earned Oscar nominations for their acting only twice: Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove and Peter Ustinov in Spartacus In his much shorter career, Cruise himself had earned as many Oscar nods. In one painful example, for just one minute of final footage where Alice makes love to a handsome naval officer-an imaginary affair that haunts Bill over the course of the film-Kubrick demanded that Kidman shoot six days of naked sex scenes with a male model.

Not only did he ask the pair to pose in over fifty erotic positions, he banned Cruise from the set and forbade Kidman to assuage her husband's tension by telling him what happened during the shoot. He says "fidelio", which is from the Latin root "fidelis" meaning "faithful" and is the title of Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera.

In the opera, Fidelio is a woman who disguises herself as a man to save her lover. Sir Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes, designed the building in the 19th-century revival of late 16th and early 17th-century Elizabethan and Jacobean styles called Jacobethan. Leslie Lowe Illona as Illona. Louise J. Taylor Gayle as Gayle as Louise Taylor.

Stewart Thorndike Nuala as Nuala. Randall Paul Harris as Harris. Julienne Davis Mandy as Mandy. Lisa Leone Lisa as Lisa. Marie Richardson Marion as Marion. Thomas Gibson Carl as Carl. Stanley Kubrick. Are you up to speed on the film icon's style? More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. After his wife, Alice, tells him about her sexual fantasies, William Harford sets out for a night of sexual adventure.

After several less than successful encounters, he meets an old friend, Nick Nightingale--now a musician--who tells him of strange sex parties where he is required to play the piano blindfolded. All the men at the party are costumed and wear masks while the women are all young and beautiful.

Harford manages to find an appropriate costume and heads out to the party. Once there, however, he is warned by someone who recognizes him, despite the mask, that he is in great danger.

He manages to extricate himself, but the threats prove to be quite real and sinister. Did you know Edit. Trivia Stanley Kubrick died just four days after presenting Warner Bros. His friends and family, as well as the cast and crew of the film, all claimed that Kubrick's death was completely unexpected and that he never seemed to be in poor health while making the film.

Goofs Bill Harford arrives at Rainbow Fashions by taxi from the Sonata Cafe, and as he talks to Milich, Gillespie's Diner can be been seen across the other side of the street. Earlier in the story we discover that Gillespie's is next door to the Sonata Cafe, so there's no way he would have taken a taxi just to cross the street not even in NYC. Quotes [last lines] Alice Harford : I do love you and you know there is something very important we need to do as soon as possible.