- Also Known As:
- Year:
- 1975
- Countries:
- Predominant Genre:
- Drama
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- Premiss:
- Rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband’s aristocratic position.
- Themes:
- Alienation | Destiny | Emotional repression | Friendship | Loneliness | Political Correctness | Self-expression | Social class | White culture
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Review Format:
- Cinema
Excellent movie about an opportunist and adventurer who renounces love to marry for money.
Beautiful to look at, superbly acted and well scored, this film palls towards the end because it cannot find anything to match the brilliance of its first half. Like the central character, it eventually dissipates the wealth of the imagination behind the camera that made it.
The style is as stately as the music and becomes a character in its own right as it tells the picaresque story of a lowborn rogue who desires to become a gentleman – and succeeds.
Throughout there is ample ironic humor, as only Stanley Kubrick can mount it, with sly, satiric nods towards the essentially materialistic nature of the modern, Western world.
This is a movie to savor because of its flair and audacity. Still cutting edge cinema – even by today’s standards.
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