Barry Lyndon, Kubrick's period drama of a roguish trickster.

Barry Lyndon is a 1975 historical drama adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. Stanley Kubrick directed this dazzling vision of a pitiless aristocracy, chronicling the adventures of an incorrigible trickster, played by Ryan O'Neal, whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years' War and the parlours of high society. With Patrick Magee and Marisa Berenson among the cast, Kubrick evoked the light and texture of eighteenth-century painting through pioneering cinematographic techniques and lavish design, work that earned Academy Awards. The result is a sardonic, devastating masterpiece whose opulence conceals the moral vacancy at its heart.