Barry Lyndon (1975)

Based on the novel "The Luck of Barry Lyndon" by William Makepeace Thackeray and set during the Seven Years' War, the film narrates the rise and fall of a romantic but ambitious young man who seeks a place among the social elite of the 18th century. In this adaptation, Stanley Kubrick puts his mastery in function of the technical deployment to make each shot a picture of the time, using resources such as candlelight in the night scenes and a production design of extreme meticulousness for greater realism.