Book, Stanley Kubrick: The Soft-Hearted Monster[LS]

Five decades of cinema that made the eyes of audiences around the world shine. Some called him, not without irony, 'god'. Others, of 'monster', also with all the possible connotations of the term. He himself thought he was a special being. 'Difficult', 'demanding', 'methodical', 'friendly', 'pessimistic', 'unpretentious' were other words used to describe Stanley Kubrick. All this polysemy of meanings of character, of the author and of the work, is scrutinized by Marcius Cortez, who takes us, with lightness of text and acuity of focus, through the trajectory of this artist, from the beginning as a photographer to 'De Olhos Bem Fechados' , his last film, among other masterpieces that, placed in their biographical and period context, reveal the true facets of The Soft-Hearted Monster that was Stanley Kubrick.