Mozart's music in the movies

Eyes Wide Shut

Stanley Kurbrick’s always had an ear for marrying fantastic pieces of classical music to his films and his soundtrack to his final movie Eyes Wide Shut was no exception. Starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a married couple who find themselves out of their depth in an underground world of sex and violence, this a disturbing, sinister movie. The heavy atmosphere of Rex tremendae from Mozart's Requiem perfectly captures Bill’s (Cruise) despair and fear when he walks into the cafe and reads of the mysterious death of a young woman knowing that she died to save him.