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Lady Macbeth (2016)

Drama | 89 minutes
3,36 262 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 89 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: William Oldroyd

Stars: Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank and Cosmo Jarvis

IMDb score: 6,8 (29.592)

Releasedate: 12 December 2016

Lady Macbeth plot

The English Countryside, 1865. Katherine is married to a much older man. She hates her loveless marriage and his cold family. When she has an affair with a young worker, it unleashes the strength in her to fight by all means for what she wants.

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De filosoof

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The first half of the film still didn't grab me (I found the film entertaining but no more than that) but after that the film turned out to be a gripping drama and eventually even as a full-fledged blood-curdling MacBeth in his feminine (according to some therefore: its feminist version. The excellent acting of Florence Pugh in particular lifts the film or the story because she manages to obsess the viewer with her struggle against the world in which she has to cross a new border every time to find her love (or freedom or dominance) and ultimately herself. to rescue. The interesting thing is that she is both victim and perpetrator: the film is not moralistic but shows that real life is not black and white but endlessly layered and interesting.

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Dievegge

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This is not based on Shakespeare, but on a novella by Nikolai Leskov about a woman with that nickname. By moving the story from the Russian countryside to northern England, they bring the location closer to the real Lady Macbeth. A second difference is that she doesn't commit suicide in the end. That is a break with the nineteenth-century view that adultery must lead to the ruin of women. Instead, she wins, albeit more like a Pyrrhic victory.

Florence Pugh is a discovery. She radiates a mixture of childlike innocence and ruthlessness. In her cobalt blue dress, she stands out against the brown and white background. When she comes into the center of the picture with a symmetrical decor, she has something despotic. The same goes for her cat, a Devon Rex. You can sympathize with her despite her crimes, because her environment is so narrow and Victorian and because she was forced into that marriage as a utilitarian object. She hardly shows any sense of guilt, only after suffocating her foster child does she shed a tear.

Unlike many costume dramas, no superfluous sentimental music has been used here, which makes it seem realistic.

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The full-length debut of director William Oldroyd is a direct hit.

At the beginning of the film, the traditional subordination of women is strongly illustrated at the time, the neglect she experiences, her humiliations...

In a beautiful, strong film style, however, the director brings a sequel that evokes amazement on many levels because of the portrayal of the main character.

It must be said that actress Florence Pugh puts down an exceptionally successful act of a hard -some scenes come across as particularly uncomfortable -, erotically radiating woman. Film really keeps you under this spell. Surprisingly good and somewhat daring.

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