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Film · 1975 · Drama
Barry Lyndon
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
1975
★ 8.4 editorial score
Cinematographers still study every frame: Kubrick lit interiors by candlelight alone using lenses built for NASA, and the result looks like walking through a gallery of paintings.
“Barry Lyndon is about foolish, gallant overreaching. 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.”
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