Barry Lyndon. 1975.
Redmond Barry leaves his home town and joins the British army and deserts it and with his use of seduction and gambling becomes a nobleman and manages to make a enemy.
A film I tried to watch and could never get to even the middle or intermission but today I done it and glad I stuck it out this time. Such a great piece of cinematic history. Ryan O'Neil plays the title character from his troubled time to living in Ireland, falling in love and then having a duel with Leonard Rossiter that may have cost those around him a lot of money.
You really do have to admire Stanley Kubrick for even trying to produce and direct such a complex and expensive film that had all the ear markings of a financial and personal disaster. Not only did Kubrick manage to out do his last epic 2001 but he has created a movie that not only showcases the untapped acting abilities of some well known faces. The set pieces are amazing and the costumes are what you would expect to see in a movie with the timeline of the 18th century and a stunning background score that adds to the pace and tension of the last duel in the film.
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