Barry Lyndon (1975), starring Ryan O’Neil and Marisa Berenson. Written and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

I like period pieces, so of course I would like this movie. Based on a William Thackeray novel and set in the 18th century, this movie is about the social and economic rise and fall of a roguish Irishman (O’Neil). He ends up serving in several different European armies, becomes a gambler and con-man, and later marries a rich Englishwoman, but his good fortune doesn’t last. Written and directed by a Jew (Kubrick). Great cinematography and overall aesthetics. I didn’t find anything “trashy” in it, i.e., it doesn’t “feel Jewish” (note: in both the novel and this movie, Barry falls in love with his female cousin. However, I could...