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Barry Lyndon 1975
The famous candlelight scene was illuminated by two chandeliers with 70 candles and filmed by a 50 mm lens with a 0.7 aperture. This device gives the sequence a spectral look, as if the characters were powdered and masked ghosts giving themselves a human appearance.
Carnal automatons whose little life animates them like candles that will soon be extinguished only serves them to play cards and win or lose money.
A long agony of a class eaten away from the…Translated from by