Love Story, Barry Lyndon, Cotton Candy… Ryan O'Neal in 5 films

A young, wealthy student falls in love with a student from a modest family who has to work to pay for her studies. The two lovebirds get married despite the opposition of the wealthy father and decide to have a child. The young girl then learns that she has leukemia. This love story that ends badly gave cinema one of its most moving films. Love Story, engraved in the history of the seventh art the couple formed by Ryan O' Neal and Ali MacGraw. It was in 1970.

When five years later, Stanley Kubrick chose Ryan O'Neal to play Barry Lyndon, in his eponymous film exploring the mores of the 18th century, the actor was no less flamboyant. Between the two films, there was the magnificent Cotton Candy where the actor played with his daughter Tatum, who then aged 10, won the Oscar for best supporting actress in 1974. Not to mention Let's pack our bags, doc! , where the actor opposite Barbra Streisand and seduces the audience in the register of crazy comedy. We will also remember Driver, when Ryan O'Neal plays a lone driver, master in the art of eluding the police, and joins forces with an attractive young woman played by Isabelle Adjani.

From Love Story to Barry Lyndon, via Cotton Candy, Le Figaro presents an anthology, in images, of the career of Ryan O'Neal.