I started off really wanting to like this movie. But ...
Katherine Waterston plays a bored wife on an isolated farm in the middle of the 19th century. She thinks her husband is a dullard and has a deep-seated conviction that's she's too good for him. Then a pretty neighbour moves in down the road so she livens up the tedium by having an affair.
This is basically Madame Bovary stripped down to a skeleton and shorn of any of the insight you'll find in that classic, but with a lesbian angle bolted on to make it seem artsy. It manages to be both dire and dour in equal proportions.
Katherine Waterston plays a bored wife on an isolated farm in the middle of the 19th century. She thinks her husband is a dullard and has a deep-seated conviction that's she's too good for him. Then a pretty neighbour moves in down the road so she livens up the tedium by having an affair.
This is basically Madame Bovary stripped down to a skeleton and shorn of any of the insight you'll find in that classic, but with a lesbian angle bolted on to make it seem artsy. It manages to be both dire and dour in equal proportions.