Drama · History
American
1975 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 188 min
An Irish youth with more charm than money leaves home in the mid-eighteenth century and tries to make a place for himself in a Europe of armies, card tables and aristocratic drawing rooms. Stanley Kubrick tells it as a slow, ironic, painterly chronicle.
Why it matters in cinema history
A landmark of the historical film as visual art, proving that costume drama could be built on the look of 18th-century painting and on genuine period light rather than studio gloss.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a series of moving paintings, where composition and distance tell you how the film judges its hero.
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