Kubrick’s Forgotten Masterpiece Barry Lyndon is Stanley Kubrick’s sweeping historical epic about ambition, vanity, and fate. It follows Redmond Barry, an Irish farm boy who climbs his way up the social ladder through charm, luck, and deceit — eventually becoming the aristocratic Barry Lyndon. Played masterfully by Ryan O’Neal, Barry’s rise from soldier to nobleman is as breathtaking as it is tragic. Kubrick paints every frame like a living oil painting — candlelit scenes, grand duels, and quiet

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