Narrated by a sly and prophetic observer, Kubrick’s painterly and blithely ribald eighteenth-century tale recounts a young Irishman’s striving to become an English aristocrat. Seducing, lying, gambling, and failing upward from one mishap to the next, Barry fashions his own future, leaving in his wake a trail of acrimony, and worse. Barry Lyndon is remarkable for its period verisimilitude in costuming and production design, as well as its exquisitely framed compositions and use of natural light. A camera lens designed and developed for NASA satellite photography captured the candlelit interiors of high society manor houses.