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Stanley Kubrick’s period drama situated in eighteenth-century Ireland focuses on poor Irish boy Redmond Barry, describing his rise and fall from grace. He eventually marries wealthy English countess Lady Lyndon and squanders the Lyndon family fortune in attempt to buy the title of Lord, but only incurs the hostility of her son, Lord Builingdon.
Barry Lyndon is the tragic tale, told with grace and patience, of an antihero's decline; it is a melancholy reproach of war and money, of polite society and powerful institutions. Sprawling in length, ambition and thematic intent, this is an emotional epic and a roaring success. One of Kubrick’s rarely seen masterworks gets a welcome re-release thanks to the British Film Institute and Kubrick Estate.
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1975 – UK - 184 mins + interval
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cert: 15
British Film Institute/Warner Bros/ Kubrick Estate
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