Watch the Paint Dry

Rating: 5/10 (5 July 2016)

Out of shiny fresh apples, esteemed filmmaker Stanley Kubrick takes a metaphorical lemon and paints it red. He uses only the finest and most exquisite paints available and calls his lemon "Barry Lyndon". As you would expect, Mr. Kubrick makes the Lyndon lemon look extraordinarily beautiful. Still, when you look at it for over three hours, you realize it's only an ordinary lemon. Cutting through the outer beauty, you find the lemon sour, overripe and choked with unyielding seeds. A few seeds are well-cast, though. Leon Vitali (as Lord Bullingdon) is one. You will have to wait, but Mr. Vitali does appear before Godot. There are scenes that reach perfection, like those with Lyndon's mother Marie Kean and the Reverend Murray Melvin. And the paint sparkles throughout.
***** Barry Lyndon (12/18/1975) Stanley Kubrick ~ Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Leon Vitali, Murray Melvin