This film's lack of music helps to build into the atmosphere of quiet, oppressive nature and boiling anger of the main protagonist.
The young Katherine Lester is bought by mean old rich white man to provide his pathetic, angry son with an heir, to which he is profoundly useless - forcing her to face the wall naked while he wanks. No joke.
While he and his father are away, the bored, sleepy Katherine is drawn into a romance with one of her husband's workers, Sebastian, and conducts an affair.
After which, things gradually fall into deep, murderous despair.
What appears at first to be a woman desperate to get out of a literal prison, and find happiness - soon turns into, well - as the title says, Lady Macbeth. A woman who manipulates her loved one into committing heinous, awful crimes along with her to fulfil her needs, with no thought as to how he feels, and betraying ones closest to her.
This is not really a feminist story about a woman rebelling against the oppressive patriarchy - but more like an interesting villain origin story. We're left with not knowing much about what she will do next, if it was all worth it and if she's satisfied with her goals, as she simply sits in the exact same position in the same chair with the same expression: boredom. I wish we had a little more from her in that ending.
7 out of 10.
The young Katherine Lester is bought by mean old rich white man to provide his pathetic, angry son with an heir, to which he is profoundly useless - forcing her to face the wall naked while he wanks. No joke.
While he and his father are away, the bored, sleepy Katherine is drawn into a romance with one of her husband's workers, Sebastian, and conducts an affair.
After which, things gradually fall into deep, murderous despair.
What appears at first to be a woman desperate to get out of a literal prison, and find happiness - soon turns into, well - as the title says, Lady Macbeth. A woman who manipulates her loved one into committing heinous, awful crimes along with her to fulfil her needs, with no thought as to how he feels, and betraying ones closest to her.
This is not really a feminist story about a woman rebelling against the oppressive patriarchy - but more like an interesting villain origin story. We're left with not knowing much about what she will do next, if it was all worth it and if she's satisfied with her goals, as she simply sits in the exact same position in the same chair with the same expression: boredom. I wish we had a little more from her in that ending.
7 out of 10.