"Barry Linden" has been honored as an epic work since its release in 1975, and some Kubrick fans even consider the film to be his pinnacle as a director and author. In many places, it can be regarded as Kubrick’s last masterpiece.
"Barry Linden" is not like the kind of movie that can be noticed from the beginning or has always been, more often it needs an audience to discover it. When Kubrick wrote the film’s script, he republished it mainly based on the novel "The Encounter of Barry Linden" by the famous British novelist William Makepis Thackeray.
Brings the story of an eighteenth-century European legend to the screen. Each shot is elegant like a classical oil painting, and the ending has a sense of sadness that has experienced the vicissitudes of life.
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