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Barry Lyndon (1975) 
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Monday, September 10, 2001
BARRY LYNDON is Stanley Kubrick's epic costume drama based on William Makepeace Thackeray's picaresque novel. It tells the story of a young rogue who wanders through life getting lost in various adventures, meeting his share of women and oddball characters. When Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal, trying desperately to maintain an Irish brogue) becomes jealous of Captain Quin's advances on Barry's beloved cousin, he challenges the man to a duel. Winning the duel, young Barry is forced to leave his home and his mother, and off on his adventures he goes. He meets thieves, lonely soldier brides, Prussian army leaders, and British widows, inventing new stories about himself at every turn of the road.
BARRY LYNDON is lush and magnificent, sparkling with color, every frame reminiscent of the finest European art. The blues of the Prussian army uniforms and the reds of the British contrast sharply with the majestic green land and mountains in nearly every background. Kubrick often begins a shot close in, then zooms out to reveal the beautiful natural landscape and ornate rooms surrounding the now seemingly insignificant characters. With rousing performances from O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Hardy Kruger, and Leonard Rossiter, jaw-dropping camerawork, spectacular natural lighting, and a marvelous classical-music soundtrack painstakingly put together by Kubrick, BARRY LYNDON is a dramatic romantic epic that may be Kubrick's most beautiful film.
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Poor acting and screenplay. Disappointing
Maggie from Mayo, 25 Feb 2008
One of the worst films I have ever seen. The screenplay and acting were so atrocious that I stopped watching after about 45 minutes. The mixture of Irish accents was particularly poor. None of the accents was authentic and and they were all different. Things may have improved, but there's no telling, as I couldn't bear to watch any more. Admittedly the costumes were lavish (I'm not sure what Ryan O'Neal had down his trousers) and the scenes suitably pastoral, but could not make up for the rest.
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Barry Lyndon
ciaran from Dublin, 06 Nov 2007
Visually stunning movie. Costumes, sets, make-up, script are all top-drawer. Highly watchable. My only gripes would be that the story itself falls flat towards the end and is a bit of an anti-climax. And the choice of Ryan O'Neil in the lead role was a bad call. He couldn't act to save his life.
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Period Drama's Suck but this was class
Robert from Clare, 10 May 2011
I never heard of this movie but I would have to say it has it all un-requited love, financial ruin, adventure, arrival ruin again and the loss of a leg all in all a good commentary on any outsiders motives, expectations and losing it all. Amadeus is also a good period drama
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barry lyndon
dave from Laois, 01 Dec 2008
A classic. Looks beautiful, as you'd expect from kubrick.
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Barry Lyndon
Frances from Clare, 22 Sep 2010
Enjoyable ... beautifully filmed
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