The Death of Kubrick

March 1999, interior, daytime, close-up of the psoriasis-covered face of Alex Conway. Alex Conway is lonely, nervous, sexually repressed, but above all completely obsessed with the life and work of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. In March 1999, just days before the release of the film Eyes Wide Shut, Alex wins a contest allowing him to attend the film’s official premiere. He will finally be able to meet his idol and speak to him about his long-abandoned film project on Napoleon. But upon hearing the news of his favorite director’s unexpected death, the fragile foundations of his mental stability begin to crumble. His own apartment suddenly becomes the film set of his guilty conscience. His transgender landlady throws him out, an intrusive stranger threatens to steal his identity, and the unspoken sexual urges he believed he had forever subdued catch up with him. Then, the caretaker from his childhood reappears before him in the form of... Stanley Kubrick. The filming of the previously impossible Napoleon can now begin…