BARRY LYNDON Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick's handsome, assured screen adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's first novel, is so long and leisurely, so panoramic in its narrative scope, that it's as much an environment as it is a conventional film. Its austerity of purpose defines it as a costume movie unlike any other you've seen. The two films share a century (the eighteenth), one country (England), and the picaresque mode, but their concerns and styles are entirely different. Kubrick has attempted, which is coolly to examine a world as strange and distant in its way as were the future worlds of 2. A Clockwork Orange. They make the film a rigorous experience unless you give yourself up to the director's method. Kubrick takes his own sweet time as he looks, examines, comments, enchants the eye frequently, but always remains a little distant. In a Kubrick film even genuine sentiments are so suspect that a scene that in any other director's film would be sentimental becomes almost malicious. It's the story of the rise and fall of a poor, good- natured Irish opportunist, born Redmond Barry and later to take the name of Barry Lyndon, after his successful courtship of one of England's richest aristocrats, the widowed Lady Lyndon, a beautiful vaporous woman whose high station gives her the right to be boring. The film has a great deal to say about the privileges of class. This sends Barry off to the Seven Years War in Germany, first in the English Army, then the Prussian. This, in the not- so- mock piety of the film, is his undoing. Kubrick has spent a fortune on the film, and it shows, not only in the care that's been taken in locations (England, Ireland, and Germany), in the grand houses, and in the battle scenes, but also in the photography of John Alcott. Kubrick's boldest decisions was to make the film as beautiful as it is. Good movies should not be too beautiful. It's thought to be distracting, if not a substitute for content. Yet the Alcott camerawork, which transforms scene after scene into something that suggests a Gainsborough or a Watteau, has the function of setting us apart from Barry's adventures, rather than tricking us into involvement. O'Neal, who's on the screen throughout, is, I think, fine, too self- assured for his own good, growing increasingly reckless as the film progresses and, at the end, a surprised wreck. Among the supporting players, Murray Melvin (as Lady Lyndon's resident priest), Marie Kean (as Barry's ambitious mother), and Diana Koerner (as a pretty German fortune of war) are superb. Marisa Berenson splendidly suits her costumes and wigs. They all fit together. Barry Lyndon is another fascinating challenge from one of our most remarkable, independent- minded directors. BARRY LYNDON (MOVIE) Produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick; written by Mr. Kubrick, based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray; cinematographer, John Alcott; edited by Tony Lawson; music by Leonard Rosenman; production designer, Ken Adam; released by Warner Brothers. Running time: 1. 84 minutes. Read user reviews of Barry Lyndon, 1975, directed by Stanley Kubrick, with Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, here at TCM. I've loved this film from the first time I saw it in 1976 in a dome theater with wonderful sound. The music carries the scenes. Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975) -- movie clip Posted by Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975) Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975) added 25 new photos to the album: Candlelit scenes shot w.Get more information about Barry Lyndon on TMDb. In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora engages to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him for a. Barry Lyndon (1975) Drama Rated PG In some ways, Barry Lyndon is an even more obvious Stanley Kubrick joke than Dr. A costume epic that pokes fun of other costume epics even as it outdoes them, this is the point at which Kubrick’s black. Barry Lyndon (DVD) Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson star in director Stanley Kubrick's lavish adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic 18th-century novel about the rise and fall of a sensitive and dashing rogue, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.
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