Barry Lyndon

Production year: 1975

Drama PG   Running time: 3:05 

IMDB rating:   8.1     Aspect: Wide;  Languages: English;  Subtitles: English;  Audio: DD 5.1

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 f-rced to join the Prussian Army where he saves the life of his captain and becomes his protg 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.

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Features

Featurettes/Behind-The-Scenes/Documentaries
Interviews

Special features

Documentary featuring cast and crew interviews
Excerpts from a 1976 Audio interview with director Stanley Kubrick
Program about the film's groundbreaking visuals
Program about Academy Award winning production designer Ken Adam
Interview with editor Anthony Lawson
French television interview from 1976 with Oscar-winning costume designer Ulla-Britt Soderlund
Interview with critic Michel Ciment
Interview with actor Leon Vitali about the 5.1 surround soundtrack
Piece analyzing the fine-art-inspired aesthetics of the film with art curator Adam Eaker
Essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and two pieces about the film from the March 1976 issue of American Cinematographer
Barry Lyndon