There is something profoundly sad in Eyes Wide Shut... Is it because it's the last film of Stanley Kubrick, this gifted talent who brought together the words "genius" and "films"? Or is it because of the feeling of melancholic futility that inhabits the lives of this couple, who have everything they need to be happy, yet seem trapped in a formula where sex is an episodic necessity, made up of fleeting pleasure, while the rest is an ersatz normality built…
Franklin J. Schaffner's Patton opens with its most emblematic image: General George S. Patton Jr., played by the coincidentally similarly named George C. Scott, standing before a giant American flag to deliver one of cinema's greatest speeches. Yet the film is too intelligent to be labeled gratuitously patriotic. The 1970 Best Picture winner is a thought-provoking exaltation of warfare through the portrayal of a man who loved his country but loved fighting even more, embracing victory with such passion that…
Nothing much about the plot, but I appreciate the film for truly being set in France, with French people who actually and mostly speak French instead of English.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Great. Another poor woman giving up her dreams for an average man in a Christmas film. Haven’t we had enough of this from Hallmark already?
