Review of Barry Lyndon (1975) by Huseyn B — 25 Oct 2012

Outstanding film adaptation of the novel by director Stanley Kubrick classic of English literature, William Thackeray admires above all, a rich visual solution, accurate and finely stylized reproduction of the Napoleonic campaigns. Wonderful photography John Alcott (Kubrick worked with him on his last film "A Clockwork Orange") deservedly won the "Oscar" as the art director, designer and costume designer, in addition - composer Leonard Rozenmen, adapted the music of the early XIX century . Story of the rise and brilliant career of the young Irishman Barry Lyndon, who was married to a rich girl from the top of the world, typical of the classical literature of the XIX century. But Stanley Kubrick, as always, creates out of the ordinary "moral history" epic mural on the vicissitudes of human destiny and its relationship with age.

Despite the amazing visual and sound advantages of this film, interesting philosophical research director on "individual and History", the screen creation Kubrick seems somewhat lengthy and rather cold in his manner, which is witnessed by all the encyclopedia. However, others expressed aphoristic in an interview Steven Spielberg, who is valued highly and even with admiration cinematic talent of his senior colleagues, "the best expert of cinema directors, along with Francis Coppola and Martin Scorsese", "View" Barry Lyndon "- as if the whole day walking around the museum Prado without lunch. ".