MOVIE · 2016

Lady Macbeth

DramaRomance89 min

Rural England, 1865: Katherine is a young wife trapped in a joyless marriage to a much older man and under the control of his domineering father. Florence Pugh is Katherine, hemmed in by a severe household until she begins an affair with Sebastian (Cosmo Jarvis), a worker on the family estate. What starts as an escape turns into a fight over who holds power inside the house, as the rules of class, marriage, and obedience begin to give way around her.