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Lady Macbeth

2016

William Oldroyd

Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank, Cosmo Jarvis, Naomi Ackie ...

6.5

7,161

Drama Rural England, 1865. Katherine (Florence Pugh) is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, and his cold, unforgiving family. When she embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husband’s estate, a force is unleashed inside her so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

	Media	Author	Review
		Guy Lodge Variety	"Florence Pugh announces herself as a major talent to watch in William Oldroyd's impressively tough-minded Victorian tragedy."
		Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"'Lady Macbeth' mostly operates within established period conventions, but draws fresh blood from antique material thanks to a sparky cast, subtle nods to contemporary race and gender issues and a hefty shot of gothic melodrama."
		Sam C. Mac Slant	"'Lady Macbeth' eventually turns into a meaningless, mean-spirited, and proudly irredeemable non-character study (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"'Lady Macbeth' maintains a constant atmospheric dread. Oldroyd crafts a masterful sense of uncertainty about how far Katherine will go to preserve her dominance."
		Bradley Warren The Playlist	"The film is a technical accomplishment (...) Underneath the dark humor and holistic 'mise en scène', there remains the nagging suspicion that what is onscreen is (...) another patriarchal interpretation of Lady Macbeth."
		Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"A powerfully austere nineteenth-century drama, and an uncompromising attempt to make that rare thing, a genuine British art film. Superbly acted and executed"
		David Parkinson Empire	"This intelligently scripted and imposingly played costume noir revisits the conventions of Victorian melodrama to comment on modern attitudes to oppression, prejudice and morality (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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