DramaRomance

Lady Macbeth

2017
★ 6.8 / 10
In 19th-century rural England, a young bride who has been sold into marriage discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate...
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★★★★★
Looking at the title, you might think director William Oldroyd's Lady Macbeth is about revenge, lust, murder, and boredom, and you would be right on all counts. Katherine (Florence Pugh), a 19th century teen bride of an arranged marriage to a middle-aged drunk...
★★★★★
Frances Pugh is the gravitational force of this film; not simply filling the role, but her presence consuming the other characters, the building to which she is confined for most of the film and the shots she inhabits even when silent. In that respect, it's a...
★★★★★
As "Lady Macbeth" (2016 release from the UK; 90 min.) opens, we see a young woman (we later learn her name is Katherine) getting married in what looks to be 19th century England. On her wedding night, she is left untouched by her (older) husband. Her father-in...
★★★★★
I'm not familiar with the Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk short story by Nikolai Neskov (not to be confused with Lady Macbeth by William Shakespeare) which he wrote as a novella in 1865, although it is inspired by the famous play. the book inspired Shostakovich to wr...
★★★★★
The story starts with a marriage. When the wedding is over, we all expect a romance to accure. Though all we observe is a loveless husband who's going to enslave his woman as a figure in a cage. The powerless lady who had tried to be a devoted compliant wife b...
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