Found "Bruciante segreto", the film Stanley Kubrick has never realized

Thirteen films. Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) left only thirteen films, sufficient to secure a place in the history of cinema and a large number of material academics to work for many decades. Now, wrote the English The Observer one of these professors while doing archival research for a book on Eyes Wide Shut accidentally found a Kubrick's unpublished script, prepared for a film that never turns. He dates back to 1956, for decades he was considered lost in the meanders of young Kubrick's career, and instead, Professor Nathan Abrams of Bangor University found him intact. a typed text of more than one hundred pages, the film adaptation of a novel by [Austrian-AustrianwriterStefanZweig Burning Secret and tells a story that really impresses for it to be some kind of Lolita on the contrary: the friendship between a boy of 12 years on vacation – convalescent after an illness – and an adult man, a baron, who really starts to go with the boy to be able to stay approaching his mother (the story of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita that of a man who marries a woman because he is actually in love with his daughter's twelve years).

Kubrick adapted the novel with the novelist Calder Willingham with whom he had worked on another scenario (which he managed to achieve), that of Horizons of Glory . Kubrick's unpublished scripts are getting a lot of attention from Hollywood: Steven Spielberg filmed a film a few years ago, AI based on a Kubrick script, and it is now likely that a producer will be able to even transform ] Secret Burning . Novella has already had a film adaptation: in 1988, directed by Andrew Birkin (Jane's brother and former badistant Kubrick) with Klaus Maria Brandauer and Faye Dunaway. Why did Kubrick abandon the project? The somewhat troubling nature of the plot, complicated to digest producers and censors in 1956, was undoubtedly a factor. But the copy found by Abrams is on the wallet stamp of the MGM, which may have canceled the project because of the treason of the director who abandons a year later his contract with the production company to shoot elsewhere Horizons of Glory

In any case the theory concerning the scandalous nature of the plot of Burning secret – adultery, the closeness between an adult and a boy – as a cause of non-fulfillment The project seems a little 'weak considering that only six years after Kubrick was able to reach the most outrageous Lolita . But his career as a director has certainly been marked by false starts: and for this, he signed only thirteen films (just before Eyes Wide Shut arriving in cinemas), leaving behind other unfinished projects. historical films about Napoleon and the Shoah. Kubrick loved coincidences: in this story there are many, one leads to another (his partner Willingham was a close friend of Nabokov). From this story, one should think, one would smile: in the certainty that his scripts, filmed by another, even with the genius of Spielberg, would not have become beautiful films like his.