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Critics Consensus: Cynical, ironic, and suffused with seductive natural lighting, Barry Lyndon is a complex character piece of a hapless man doomed by Georgian society.
Critic Consensus: Cynical, ironic, and suffused with seductive natural lighting, Barry Lyndon is a complex character piece of a hapless man doomed by Georgian society.
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The wonderfully dry and witty narration is from Thackeray, delivered by Michael Horder.
The great director's least satisfying, most disconcerting film - and that's what makes it extraordinary.
One of cinema's most heartfelt and sustained (it runs over three hours), if cynical, visions of an individual's powerlessness.
Barry Lyndon is something to rediscover.
Stanley Kubrick's magisterial Thackeray adaptation now stands as one of his greatest and most savagely ironic films, not to mention one of the few period pieces on celluloid so transporting that it seems to predate the invention of cameras.
Ryan O'Neal's excellent performance captures the shallow opportunism endemic to the title character who is brought down as much by his own flaws as by the mores of the ordered social structure of 18th-century England.
...a maddeningly hit-and-miss drama that's all-too-often far more miss than it is hit.
It just hangs there on the screen for three hours, a monument to Kubrick's patience and pedantry and rather laborious good taste, but signifying very little else.
The expressive authority of Kubrick's direction is breathtaking.
It's gorgeous to look at, with its reverse zooms that slowly widen to stunning rural panoramas, its beautiful framing, its delight in decorative detail. You feel you are watching a masterclass in how to recreate the look and feel of the late 18th century.
This is a period film like no other, a slow but utterly hypnotic tale of an Irish youth whose adventures and misfortunes take in the Seven Years' War, the gambling clubs of Europe and marriage into the English aristocracy.
Ryan O'Neal has the role of his career as Redmond Barry, an Irish rogue who lies, fights and sleeps his way to prominence in 18th century society.
A fabulous picaresque tale - satirical and tragic - in which we see Kubrick make every splendid shot look like an authentic 18th-century painting while using a cynical and essentially cold approach to recount a long series of barely connected episodes in our anti-hero's ill-fated life.
Super Reviewer
My favorite Kubrick film by far. Epic story with fine costumes and sets -- and a soundtrack to die for.
Barry Lyndon is a fantastic epic helmed by Stanley Kubrick that boasts great performances and revolutionary and beautiful direction.
A sprawling, flawed, but still ultimately successful epic about a drifter (Ryan O'Neal) in the 18th century who goes from poverty to riches after serving in the Seven Years' War and coming out a hero after saving his captain's life, and how he marries into wealth and tries to attain the status and respect he feels he deserves. Although there is no justifiable reason for this film to be three hours (the middle hour especially sags considerably), this still remains an important movie due to its overarching themes of wealth and how it affects one's life and perspective, and how ultimately money means nothing and family and relationships are more important and rewarding. O'Neal gives a sensational performance, and while Kubrick has seen better days directing, this movie still wins out in the end due to its ability to drive home an important message with resolute force.
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