Barry Lyndon
Kubrick's dazzling, visionary reinvention of Thackery's novel.
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A journey through love and war, following the fortunes of the titular protagonist from rustic Ireland to European battlefields and encounters with high and low life.
Introduced by Richard Combs.
Kubrick's dazzling reinvention of Thackeray's 19th-century version of the 18th-century novel is a journey through love and war, following the fortunes of Barry from rustic Ireland to European battlefields and encounters with high and low life. Kubrick makes the rascally protagonist into something more mysterious, with O'Neal's expressionless face becoming a tabula rasa reflecting the chaos and corruption of the era. Beautifully lit and sumptuously staged, Barry Lyndon combines the pleasures of the picaresque novel with the visual splendours of cinema.
- Directed by:
- Stanley Kubrick
- Cast:
- Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson
- Country:
- UK
- Year:
- 1975
- Running time:
- 187min
- Certificate:
- PG
