Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

2016

In 19th-century rural England, a young bride who has been sold into marriage discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate. Rural England, 1865. Katherine, suffocated by her loveless marriage to a bitter man and restrained by his father’s tyranny, unleashes an irresistible force within her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

Effi Briest

2009

Following her parents’ wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi’s senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum life, far from home, for Effi. Innstetten devotes himself entirely to his political career, and the sleepy small town of Kessin has very little to offer in terms of variety. But then, one day, Innstetten’s old regimental comrade, Major […]

Secrets (1971) – Jacqueline Bisset

June 18, 2018

A housewife gets picked up in the park by a rich widower who tells her that she reminds him of his dead wife. She decides to quench his longing for his dead wife by becoming her: she puts on his ex-wife’s dress, perfume, and make-up, and then she fucks him.