Florence Pugh as Katherine Lester
LADY MACBETH 2016 | dir. William Oldroyd
Happy 24th, Florence Pugh.
copperfire asked:
I was reading through your movie reviews (always a delight! I really enjoy them) and got to your Lady Macbeth review and then lost it in delight that someone else has seen this movie! I watched it on a plane which is entirely the wrong setting for, y'know, brutal psychological period pieces but it was still awesome and left me going 'holy shit!'. (And then I watched Heavenly Creatures because apparently I was not about to watch something happy on that flight)
LADY MACBETH IS SO DAMN GOOD. Entirely the wrong thing for planes OR the summertime, which is when I watched it, but it will STILL knock you on your ass no matter where you are!
And HEAVENLY CREATURES IS ALSO SO DAMN GOOD. And WEIRD, I mean, both of these—my god what kind of plane were you even on??
I’d rather stop you breathing than have you doubt how I feel.
Lady Macbeth (2016) dir. William Oldroyd
I’d rather stop you breathing than let you doubt how I feel.
Lady Macbeth (2016) dir. William Oldroyd
Watched this spare & unsparing psychological costume drama in entirely the wrong season but with the entirely right person: my dear friend Emily, of exactly the artistic temperament to holler along with me from minute one to minute 90.
Here is your requisite explainer that Lady Macbeth is not about the Shakespearean antiheroine, but another woman in her troubling thematic line. Hers and maybe Highsmith’s, as the movie plays out like a chilly, murdery Ripley story set in a remote north English manor in the mid-1800s, with this particular enigmatically brutal protagonist a young woman just sold off into marriage to a wealthy, sallow man who hates her. She hates him too. There are approximately five and a half other characters in the play and four of them are people of color, because why just make a rare minimalist Victorian when you could also be making an incredible indictment of white feminism? I guess if you don’t want to be unusual and interesting!
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