Please help me identify this film!

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I can see why you got Ryan O'Neal confused with Eddie Marsan, they could be twins separated at birth really.

Frogletina

esuhl wrote: »

Aha! I've got it! (I think.)

The film was Barry Lyndon, and Eddie Marsan wasn't in it. Oh -- and maybe it was Leonard Rossiter rather than John Cleese...? Both funny guys, but... I'm starting to worry about my memory!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lyndon

I'm going to see if I can rent a copy to be sure, but I think that's the one!

Thanks again, everyone!

:j

Thank you for the update

I kept coming back to this film when I was trying to find what you were looking for - despite not having Eddie Marsan, John Cleese or Beethoven's music in it. It is however over two hours long - 185 minutes.

Funny how our minds play tricks with us.

frogletina

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colin_maybe wrote: »

i can see why you got ryan o'neal confused with eddie marsan, they could be twins separated at birth really.

(and the actual film was made in 1975, when Marsan was 7 years old.. )

esuhl

Frogletina wrote: »

I kept coming back to this film when I was trying to find what you were looking for - despite not having Eddie Marsan, John Cleese or Beethoven's music in it. It is however over two hours long - 185 minutes.

Funny how our minds play tricks with us.

It certainly is! Is John Cleese definitely not in it, either...?

Nor Beethoven's music?! Ah... Apparently it's Handel's "Sarabande"... It does remind me of Beethoven's Symphony No.7 (allegretto). :-/

I can hardly believe that I misremembered so much! Hopefully I'll have also forgotten the whole plot, so when I see it again it'll be like watching it for the first time!

Frogletina

esuhl wrote: »

I can hardly believe that I misremembered so much! Hopefully I'll have also forgotten the whole plot, so when I see it again it'll be like watching it for the first time!

Well, I have enjoyed the mystery.

Today I have listened to the soundtrack of Barry Lyndon via youtube, which I very much enjoyed. Then after that there followed another piece of music 'Mussorgsky - Night On Bald Mountain'. Imagine my surprise when I then turned to facebook and found that my friend had listened to that same youtube piece just 6 hours earlier.

frogletina