Published on
Jul 19, 2025
Barry Lyndon’s doomed world
For Stanley Kubrick, the self-made, cynical observer of human foibles, exiled in his rambling Georgian manor, the story of Barry Lyndon, Thackeray’s amoral 18th century Irish antihero, was an obvious choice. Yet, for critics in 1975, the purpose of Kubrick …
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