Stanley Kubrick’s sumptuous and mordantly witty period drama, an adaptation of William Thackeray’s novel, returns to the big screen in a gorgeous restoration. Kubrick’s exploration of social mobility, imperial decline and performative identity – as presented through the travails of Ryan O’Neal’s eponymous, barely heroic protagonist – somehow resonated perfectly with the anxious times of 1975. Now 50 years old, Kubrick’s painterly masterpiece returns to cinemas in a similar moment of global uncertainty and cultural shift. A landmark in cinema, Barry Lyndon is a meditation on power, class, and the theatricality of history (BFI)
We meet in the BFI Southbank foyer at 5:10pm for the 5:25pm showing of the film
