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Jul 14, 2017 · “Lady Macbeth” has the refined, pleasing trappings of a tasteful period piece with the vicious, beating heart of a brutal psychological thriller. You can’t stop watching its beauty, even as you long to look away from its cruelty.
Jul 13, 2017 · Culture. Lady Macbeth Is a Brilliant, Macabre Period Drama. William Oldroyd’s debut film, based on a Russian novel, is a surprising tale of murder and infidelity in rural Victorian England....
- William Oldroyd
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Lady Macbeth is a 2016 British period drama film directed by William Oldroyd and produced by Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly. Written for the screen by Alice Birch, it is based on the 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov. It stars Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie and Christopher Fairbank.
- $5.4 million
- Dan Jones
- £500,000
- Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
Jul 12, 2017 · Director William Oldroyd and screenwriter Alice Birch have made quite a few changes in adapting the 19th-century Russian writer Nikolai Leskov’s novella Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
- Senior Movie Critic
Intense British period drama has sex, violence, language. Read Common Sense Media's Lady Macbeth review, age rating, and parents guide.
- William Oldroyd
- Kat Halstead
- Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton
Florence Pugh broke through with her powerhouse performance here as Katherine, a young woman who is “sold” into a coldly transactional marriage with a cruel and impotent merchant in 1800s Northern England.
Apr 27, 2017 · Oldroyd’s new movie version, shot with clarity and verve by cinematographer Ari Wegner, retains all of this story’s subversive sexiness, making changes to the narrative, bringing in or rather...
