It was...pretty good. Production quality is high as expected, apparently Kubrick used magic NASA lenses or some crazy shit to shoot the entire countryside in perfect focus. He really liked the zoom-out maneuver on this movie, didn't he? I think that contributes to the impersonal distance of it, there is a psychological effect that goes with constantly moving away from the characters. The omniscient and somewhat sarcastic narrator puts even more space between the audience and protagonist, as we're frequently told what's going to happen beforehand. I ended up feeling like it was more about social commentary than characters - the absurd pageantry of navigating the class divide, contradictions of formal beauty and ugly content. My favorite scene was Barry smuggling himself out of Prussia using makeup to disguise himself as the deposed Chevalier. It's all about the presentation. Not my favorite Kubrick right away but it's in the top half 7/10 ---