'Lady Macbeth': A New Bride Flouts The Rigid Rules Of Society — And Humanity
In this unsentimental, unflinching, increasingly harrowing film, a young woman in Victorian England internalizes the various cruelties visited upon her ... until she doesn't.
In a canny revision of one of literature's top nasty women, William Oldroyd's brings us a Gothic tale of a shackled young wife turned angry bird, wreaking havoc on all who cross her and plenty who don't. Set in rural Victorian England, the movie, which filters Shakespeare's toxic bride through a 19-century novella by Nikolai Leskov, minces neither word nor image laying
