Barry Lyndon (1975) 8.1
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. Director:Stanley Kubrick |
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Barry Lyndon (1975) 8.1
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. Director:Stanley Kubrick |
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Ryan O'Neal | ... | ||
Marisa Berenson | ... | ||
Patrick Magee | ... | ||
Hardy Krüger | ... |
Captain Potzdorf
(as Hardy Kruger)
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Steven Berkoff | ... | ||
Gay Hamilton | ... |
Nora Brady
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Marie Kean | ... |
Barry's Mother
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Diana Körner | ... |
Lischen
(as Diana Koerner)
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Murray Melvin | ... |
Reverend Samuel Runt
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Frank Middlemass | ... | ||
André Morell | ... |
Lord Gustavus Adolphus Wendover
(as Andre Morell)
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Arthur O'Sullivan | ... | ||
Godfrey Quigley | ... |
Captain Grogan
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Leonard Rossiter | ... |
Captain John Quin
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Philip Stone | ... |
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 gets engaged to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him to a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin but is robbed on the road. Without an alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War. He deserts and is forced to join the Prussian Army where he saves the life of his captain and becomes his protégé and spy of the Irish gambler Chevalier de Balibari. He helps Chevalier and becomes his associate until he decides to marry the wealthy Lady Lyndon. They move to England and Barry, in his obsession of nobility, dissipates her fortune and makes a dangerous and revengeful enemy. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Kubrick's adaptation of Thackeray's Barry Lyndon sharply divides fans of the great director's work, as the languid pace and seemingly interminable running time -- not to mention Ryan O'Neal's questionable performance in the title role -- are cherished by some and deplored by others. Little argument will be made against John Alcott's Academy Award-winning cinematography or Ken Adam's production design, however, and Kubrickian motifs are manifest in the gallery of characters' wide-ranging displays of cowardice, guile, duplicity, avarice, jealousy, greed, and cruelty. Marisa Berenson is terribly short-changed in her role as the Lady Lyndon, but a number of other performers are given the opportunity to create a handful of memorable moments -- especially Arthur O'Sullivan (albeit briefly) as the charming, intelligent highwayman and Patrick Magee as the Chevalier. Love it or hate it, Barry Lyndon will remain essential viewing for aficionados of the director, who enjoys taking his usual shots at the more discouraging aspects of human behavior.