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Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth

6.6

Lady Macbeth

R·2016·86m

Summary

Rural England, 1865. Katherine, suffocated by her loveless marriage to a bitter man and restrained by his father's tyranny, unleashes an irresistible force within her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

Crew

Director

William Oldroyd

Novel

Nikolai Leskov

Script Editor

Sarah Golding

Writer

Alice Birch

Reviews

Rangan

Rangan

February 4, 2018

7

**There's no one to stand against her!**

Based on the Russian novel of the same name. My first guess was it going to be a boring periodic drama. After knowing about the film plot, I anticipated a storyline just like 'Moliere', but what I saw was a dark and twisted tale. I was really surprised to see a film like this. Enjoyed it though. This is not a good film from the moral value aspect. But film is a film, sometimes it just depicts the real life, even it is a fictional, surely it would have had taken place without the world knowing it.

Katherine, aka Lady Macbeth, a newly married young woman, but that's not an ideal life any couples want to live. Discarded by her husband, she finds a secret lover among the staffs of the house to satisfy her sexual urges. As expected, it does not go well when gossips comes out. Following the consequences, how the rest of the story unfolds was told with a series of twists.

I liked simple settings. Maybe because it was a rural tale, but was so perfect. Florence Pugh has a potential to be a big star. The same goes to the director as well. This is her first film for me. She single handedly made this film look good. Not the year's most anticipated film, but definitely worth a watch. The Russian style British tale. One of the best films from such theme.

_7/10_

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$5,245,263.00

Keywords

northern england
countryside
based on novel or book
arranged marriage
victorian england
older man younger woman relationship
groom
black maid
remote farm
19th century
mushrooms
daughter–in–law father–in–law relationship
wife kills husband
wife and lover kill husband