Barry Lyndon
At long last Redmond Barry became a gentleman—and that was his tragedy.
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Dec 27, 2024
Patron Exclusive Review Episode 101
Love Means Never Having To Say “Let Me Pay For That, Honey”
Ryan O’Neal told a different kind of Love Story when he starred as a con artist hustling 18th Century Europeans out of a fortune intended for his sexy cousin in the wry costume drama Barry Lyndon. But does Stanley Kubrick’s insistence on authentic period detail turn a lighthearted novel by William Makepeace Thackeray into a cinematic experience as slow as watching paint dry? (And do you care when the images are this lovely?) Find out if the 2001 director shot himself in the foot with his 1975 pretensions by becoming a December Patron.
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