Barry Lyndon

1 9 7 5 (UK)

Master director Stanley Kubrick turned to the 18th-century W.M. Thackeray novel for this costume drama about an Irish rogue who climbs to the top of English aristocratic society. It was an $11 million production - well made and beautifully photographed, but energy and emotion were sorely lacking, and most moviegoers probably walked out of this three-hour ordeal more dazed than entertained. 

O'Neal played Lyndon, and Berenson played  the beautiful, sad, and wealthy countess he marries. Also with Hardy Kruger, Steven Berkoff, and Gay Hamilton.

The production was set against the music of Bach, Handel, Schubert, Mozart, and Vivaldi.