In 1865, young Katherine (Florence Pugh) is married off to the older lord of the manor (Paul Hilton) in what turns out to be a lonely, loveless and even cruel marriage. He is often away and she is left to her boredom and isolation and ends up having a torrid affair with a groom (Cosmo Jarvis). Their passion turns to muder to keep it alive.
Based off Nikolai Leskov's Russian novel, 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk', this Angliscised film comes across as a brutal version of a Brontë novel with its added dimension of cruelty, even beyond that of the Brontës. Bleak and bare in appearance, the film is as engaging as it is shocking, but keeps itself gritty and true to itself.
Based off Nikolai Leskov's Russian novel, 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk', this Angliscised film comes across as a brutal version of a Brontë novel with its added dimension of cruelty, even beyond that of the Brontës. Bleak and bare in appearance, the film is as engaging as it is shocking, but keeps itself gritty and true to itself.