Genius-these two- Stanley Kubrick & William Makepeace Thackeray.
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The Luck of Barry Lyndon by Thackeray, was published in 1844 and based on the life and exploits of the Anglo-Irish rakehell Andrew Robinson Stoney. Stanley Kubrick adapted Thackeray's novel, making Barry Lyndon.Whatever wooden Ryan O'Neal lacks as Barry, the languid Marisa Berenson makes up for as the unhappiest of women, Lady Lyndon.
Each minute of the film delivers art.
Whether it is 18th century costume, interiors- or landscape- the camera is recording a perfect canvas.
Kubrick wanted to create the most authentic period film ever made.
He shot on location- no studio sets and attempted to use only natural sunlight and candlelight.
Marisa Berenson is a walking canvas.
"Although his mature paintings seem to be so many depictions of frivolous fêtes galantes, they in fact display a sober melancholy, a sense of the ultimate futility of life, that makes him, among 18th century painters, one of the closest to modern sensibilities." (from www.jean-antoine-watteau.org- biography)
and so it is with Barry Lyndon.
Scenes from Barry Lyndon (all Lyndon from Warner Bros. and Watteau. (www.jean-antoine-watteau.org)
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