20 Things You Didn't Know About Eyes Wide Shut

Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire, constructed between 1852 and 1854 by the Rothschild banking family, has featured in several Hollywood movies (Batman Begins) and was used as the location of Kubrick's masquerade orgy. Was this purely aesthetic or did it have a deeper hidden significance?

In 1972, the Rothschilds, notorious for out-sizing both governments and monarchies of power and capital, held what would be the socialite party of the century, though not in Mentmore Towers. The Chateau de Ferrières in France, commissioned by Baron James de Rothschild, was "a Mentmore but twice the size."

This Surrealist themed extravaganza, attended by Audrey Hepburn and Salvador Dali, was rumoured to be particularly risqué and possibly the inspiration behind the debauchery featured in EWS.