Lady Macbeth (15) at Ely Cinema
Rural England, 1865. Trapped in a loveless marriage, a young woman begins a passionate affair with a new servant on her husband’s rural estate, but increasingly brazen self-interest and physical desire set the pair on course for disaster.
Director: William Oldroyd. UK 2016. Stars: Christopher Fairbank, Florence Pugh, Cosmo JarvisTBC mins.
Rural England, 1865. 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 husband's estate, a force is unleashed inside her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
'A deeply modern thriller borne from the 19th century, one whose traces of Hitchcock, Hardy and Haneke never obscure its huge originality.'