Peter Travers Lady Macbeth Is a Perfect Period Revenge Thriller. No need to brush up your Shakespeare to feel the thunderbolts coursing through Lady Macbeth. Florence Pugh, in a performance that will soon be legendary, is not playing the Scottish Queen who cant wash the blood off her hands. Its northern England where director William Oldroyd in a sensational feature directing debut has chosen to set his tale, adapted by playwright Alice Birch from an 1. Gundam 00 Season 2 Episode 25 English Sub. Russian novel by Nikolai Leskov called Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Confused Let Pugh be your guide shell grab you from Scene One. The 2. 1 year old British powerhouse plays Katherine, a Victorian lass whos been married off for the land by her dad to middle aged Alexander, a wealthy industrialists son Paul Hilton. Thor Ragnarok Star Tessa Thompson Wants To Do a Lady Liberators Movie, and More News. Lady Macbeth movie reviews Metacritic score Rural England, 1865. Katherine Florence Pugh is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her a. Lady Macbeth Review Sex, Lies and Corsets and One JawDropping Performance. Adaptation of Russian novel about young woman sold into marriage is a great. In addition to being a sadist, the young man cant get it up. No sooner does the lady of the house squeeze into a corset than she attracts the attention of Sebastian, a mixed race servant played with cocky zest by indie singer Cosmo Jarvis. And quicker than you can say Lady Chatterley, Madame Bovary or Anna Karenina, the plot is steaming over with dangerous intrigue and a feminist subtext. And then the murders start, evoking both the legacy of Macbeth and film noirs ranging from The Big Sleep to The Postman Always Rings Twice. I wont deny that the film comes close to going off the rails, especially in the final third when motivations are as cloudy as the sky over the moors. But even when Oldroyd loses his directorial grip, Pugh is there to make things right. Not many young actress have that sort of power to command the screen as if by divine right. She dives deep into this terrifically twisted, erotic thriller and makes it matter. Lady Macbeth quickly turns its feminist heroine into something far more disturbing. Lady Macbeth synopsis and movie info. Rural England, 1865. Katherine Florence Pugh is sold by her father, along with a parcel of land. Read the Telegraphs review of the 2015 film Macbeth, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. Plus news, clips and trailers. Rural England, 1. Katherine Florence Pugh is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, whose family are cold and unforgiving. When she embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husbands estate, a force is unleashed inside her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Lady Macbeth has the refined, pleasing trappings of a tasteful period piece with the vicious, beating heart of a brutal psychological thriller.