Barry Lyndon
classified 12ATo celebrate the 50th anniversary of its release, we're bringing Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece back to the big screen in this new 4K restoration, sourced from a scan of the 35mm original camera negative.
Stanley Kubrick's breathtaking exploration of William Makepeace Thackeray's 18th century Irish adventurer was the nearest the great director ever came to realising his uppermost ambition, to film a life of Napoleon Bonaparte.
A period film like no other, it follows the adventures and misfortunes of Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal) where he meets his share of women, takes part in the Seven Years' War, gets recruited as a spy, enjoys the gambling clubs of Europe and marries into the English aristocracy, inventing new stories about himself at every turn of the road.
Kubrick brings the book to life as only Kubrick can, using some of the most innovative filmmaking of the time, including shooting under candlelight.