Sometimes films need to be play at more than one festival to get the necessary attention, and “Lady Macbeth” is one such picture. The picture premiered this fall at the Toronto International Film Festival and thus earned some buzz, but given the glut of movies that screened at the fest, some of the acclaim for the film was diminished. But now it’s headed to the Sundance Film Festival, and a new trailer has landed to put some fresh eyeballs on the drama.
Directed by William Oldroyd and starring Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie and Christopher Fairban, this adaptation of Shostakovich’s opera tells the tragic story of a woman trapped in a marriage of convenience who enters an illicit affair. Here’s the synopsis from TIFF:
Its story concerns Lady Katherine (Florence Pugh), a young misfit in the stifling social atmosphere of Victorian England. Locked in a marriage of convenience to a much older man, marooned on an estate amidst the northern heaths of County Durham, Katherine strains against the social mores of the time. Lectured at by the local priest, tormented by a father-in-law who expects her to provide an heir, she paces her constrictive world like a wild animal looking for escape. She soon finds an outlet for her passions in Sebastian (Cosmo Jarvis), a young groom who is one of her husband’s many servants. Those passions could be their undoing.
“Lady Macbeth” opens on June 2, 2017.