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Lady Macbeth (film)
2016 British film by William Oldroyd
Lady Macbeth (film)
Lady Macbeth is a 2016 British period drama film directed by William Oldroyd, from a script by Alice Birch, and produced by Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly; it is the feature film debut for Oldroyd, Birch, and O'Reilly. Based on the 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov, it tells the story of Katherine Lester, a young woman who rids herself of controlling in-laws to live with her workman lover then secures her place in the landed gentry. The film stars Florence Pugh, Naomi Ackie, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, and Christopher Fairbank. With backgrounds in the theatre, Birch and Oldroyd wanted to make a different kind of British period drama. A lavish production, typical of the genre, was not possible on their micro budget. The story was moved from European Russia to Northumberland, England. Birch focused on the crime part of the novella, set in and around the family's house. By changing how that ended, she eliminated the punishment part, set elsewhere. Oldroyd's research...
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