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Two characters in this film exchange longing gazes at a gambling table, then wordlessly head out and share a kiss. A climactic scene from this film is set in a dilapidated barn with cooing pigeons and accompanied by a low, throbbing melody in the timpani and strings. This film zooms out from its title character on a balcony after he viciously beats his stepson. (15[1])Superfast Zeiss cameras (15[1])developed for NASA were used to shoot this film by (*) candlelight. (10[1])The main title and duels in this film feature a D minor sarabande by Handel. Paintings by William Hogarth inspired shots in this film, whose protagonist flees the Seven Years’ War and takes his aristocratic wife’s last name. For 10 points, Ryan O’Neal stars as an Irish social climber in what period drama based on a Thackeray novel and directed (-5[1])by Stanley Kubrick? ■END■ (0[4])

ANSWER: Barry Lyndon
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