Murray Melvin Rev. Samuel Runt as Rev. Samuel Runt. Arthur O'Sullivan Capt. Feeny - the Highwayman as Capt. Feeny - the Highwayman. Godfrey Quigley Capt. Grogan as Capt. Leonard Rossiter Capt. John Quin as Capt. John Quin. Philip Stone Graham as Graham. Stanley Kubrick. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. He wins and escapes to Dublin, but is robbed on the road. He helps Chevalier and becomes his associate until he decides to marry the wealthy Lady Lyndon Marisa Berenson.
They move to England and Barry, in his obsession of nobility, dissipates her fortune and makes a dangerous and revengeful enemy. At long last Redmond Barry became a gentleman -- and that was his tragedy. Adventure Drama History War.
Did you know Edit. Trivia Many of the shots were composed and filmed in order to evoke certain eighteenth-century paintings, especially those by Thomas Gainsborough. Goofs The narrator states, early on, "About this time, the United Kingdom was in a state of great excitement". The United Kingdom came into being in , when it merged with the Kingdom of Ireland, before which it was known merely as the Kingdom of Great Britain. Connections Edited into Hai-Kubrick Redmond Barry Ryan O'Neal is a young, roguish Irishman who's determined, in any way, to make a life for himself as a wealthy nobleman.
Barry then lies, dupes, duels, and seduces his way up the social ladder and enters into a lustful but loveless marriage to a wealthy countess named Lady Lyndon Marisa Berenson , takes the name of "Barry Lyndon", settles in England with wealth and power beyond his wildest dreams, then slowly falls dramatically into ruin.
Sign In. Edit Barry Lyndon Jump to: Summaries 5 Synopsis 1. The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Edit page. Top Gap. He looks the part of a lover, a soldier, a husband. But there is no there there. There's a sense in both this film and "" that a superior force hovers above these struggles and controls them. In "," it was a never-clarified form of higher intelligence. In "Barry Lyndon," it's Kubrick himself, standing aloof from the action by two distancing devices: the narrator Michael Hordern , who deliberately destroys suspense and tension by informing us of all key developments in advance, and the photography, which is a succession of meticulously, almost coldly, composed set images.
The many landscapes are often filmed in long shots; the fields, hills and clouds could be from a landscape by Gainsborough.
The interior compositions could be by Joshua Reynolds. This must be one of the most beautiful films ever made, and yet the beauty isn't in the service of emotion. Against magnificent settings, the characters play at intrigues and scandals. They cheat at cards and marriage, they fight ridiculous duels. This is a film with a backdrop of the Seven Years' War that engulfed Europe, and it hardly seems to think the war worth noticing, except as a series of challenges posed for Barry Lyndon.
By placing such small characters on such a big stage, by forcing our detachment from them, Kubrick supplies a philosophical position just as clearly as if he'd put speeches in his characters' mouths. The images proceed in elegant stages through the events, often accompanied by the inexorable funereal progression of Handel's "Sarabande. Kubrick told the critic Michel Ciment he used the narrator because the novel had too much incident even for a three-hour film, but there isn't the slightest sense he's condensing.
Some people find "Barry Lyndon" a fascinating, if cold, exercise in masterful filmmaking; others find it a terrific bore. I have little sympathy for the second opinion; how can anyone be bored by such an audacious film? Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
Ryan O'Neal as Barry Lyndon. Marisa Berenson as Lady Lyndon. Patrick Magee as The Chevalier. Hardy Kruger as Capt. Leonard Rossiter as Capt. Michael Hordern as Narrator. Reviews Great Movies Technically awesome, emotionally distant, and classically Kubrick. Roger Ebert September 09, Kubrick actually filmed only by candlelight for scenes such as this, with Marisa Berenson.
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