Of all the scenes from the movie, this one struck me the most. Director Justin Kurzel admitted that he wanted to show these characters not in the same light as other adaptations had done (as completely heathen) but that they were human beings who made poor decisions under their circumstances. Having Lady Macbeth talking to a vision of her dead child just added a new layer of analysis to this scene that I never considered. She not only regrets in killing the king; she also laments on what goodness she has lost, from losing her child to the pox to bearing the guilt of killing Macduff's family. She knows what she has done, and knows she will never be redeemed for her wrongs.

The way her face crumbles at "the thane of fife had a wife/where is she now?"

This really helped me with my essay, her acting made it easier for me to analyse this scene, amazing.

I was absolutely blown away by this scene when I first saw it and every time since, it's simply heartbreaking. I have always been impressed by Cotillard, but this is a whole new level. Across the board this movie had phenomenal acting, cinematography and music. Amazing.

When you see her departed child, you can feel her longing to hold her child and once again experience the humanity, warmth, and comfort of motherhood. It's like her separation from this sacred experience is her hell on earth. I wasn't moved by this scene; I was devastated.

Marion Cotillard was born to play Lady Macbeth. Her performance is timelessly beautiful. William Shakespeare would be honoured. 👏🏻

Most moving scene of the movie.

Haven't seen all the cinematic versions of Lady MacBeth but have seen a lot of them and Cotillard's is the most haunting/best of the lot, particularly this scene. Imagine how terrifying/horrifying it would be to possess the knowledge she now does - to know your soul is damned for eternity and there's nothing you can do about it - no chance of salvation/no 'Scrooge' redemption moment.

While I can't say Kurzel's film is the best film version of Macbeth, I can proudly stand by the opinion that Cotillard is the best Lady Macbeth ever put on film and this is the best film adaptation of the scene.

This 4:01 scene is my all-time favourite performance by a woman in any film, ever made in history. The line delivery, her emotions she goes through and shows, the sheer number of facial expression changes and anguish, pain, calmness, slight happiness at times is nothing short of remarkable.

Where was her Oscar nomination please

It shocks me as to why this woman not only didn't get nominated for an Oscar, but didn't win it......

The physical aspect of this scene are instrumental to Lady Macbeth's character. Scrubbing her hands and looking at the imaginary blood are physiological symptoms of her crushing guilt. The play constantly refers to "the deed" and to 'action' and to 'doing'. After the deed has been committed, Lady Macbeth tries to use the same physical action to rid herself of the shame and guilt but is unable to. So to exclude that physical dimension from this scene takes away from her character and from the play overall.

This is astonishing in it's complexity, just as it was written. BRAVO, I say. To one so great a ghost as to summon the Bard himself.

This scene is a masterpiece.

this is the finest bit of acting I've seen in recent times. stellar.

this monologue was breathtaking ! unfortunately I found the music that was played every time she was walking a little disturbing. it might have taken a bit of the possible extent of intensity.

Fascinating, eerie delivery, but this does not strike me as a sleepwalking scene at all.

God when it cuts to the child... that hit me like a truck

Cotillard killed it in this movie. Her acting is masterpiece and by her act and her speechs she gives life to the character. Moreover her capacity to cry impress me

Marion Cotillard killed it in this film.

You have to imagine that, in France, everyone has been bitching about Marion Cotillard for ten years now because of her death scene in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. We, french people, have one of the most outstanding actresses in the world, able to play Lady Macbeth’s monologue as no actress ever has, and we’re not even proud of her.

In next 25 years there will be another remake of MacBeth but no one and I mean no one can top this performance, this is stellar acting at its finest. Hats off!!!

A perfect adaptation of Macbeth all round. Marion was stunning.

Through raw emotional styling and full physical embodiment down to the finest gestures and details, Cotillard plunges viewers into the abyss with her, crafting an utterly haunting cinematic rendition of one of theater's most powerfulscenes achieving a new level of disturbing verisimilitude.

This to me is such a much more optimistic and forgiving version because she does not play it angrily. It’s not overdone either. She actually plays it sorrowfully. She begs for a solution and when she can’t find one she takes accountability for her roll in what she did and accepts her self inflicted punishment.

Oh my god

This was definitely unexpected version for me but it's still fitting.

the best Lady Macbeth so far! BRAVO!

Marion Cotillard's portrayal of Lady Macbeth in this cinematic rendition is unparalleled. The director's focus on the haunting, flawed, yet authentically human aspects of the characters brings a unique depth. This scene, marked by devastating guilt, echoes the sentiment that this is the most genuine depiction of Shakespeare's play.

I love to see world class actors playing classic plays!

This adaptation was, in my opinion, as masterpiece regarding the lightening and the aspect of MacBeth and his wife. And I wanted to make a small tribute of this film by including this scene to my thematic editing, right there : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rLJdfqqEm7iroHk.html Thanks Mrs. Cotillard for this great performance that gives me chills everytime.

Superb! best scene in Macbeth movie

I thought this was the best scene. Marion Cotillard is the most talented actress/actor I have ever watched..

This is a very liberal adaptation of Macbeth. But it does have some great merits. I appreciated this scene, even though I prefer Lady Macbeth to be played not so sympathetically. This is what does happen to us when we commit evil, it rips us up in the end. I like to think that there is a balance between the play version and the film version of Lady Macbeth, that she is somewhere in between being a complete monster and a tragic character. My idea of her is this: She was once human, but like her husband dangerously overdosed on ambition, so much so that she invited wicked forces to drown out all compassion in her so that she might set an example for her husband to follow. Now, after the deed is done, and her husband now surpasses even her wickedness, and she has lost all control over him, and he kills others endlessly, her humanity has returned to some extent and she knows to what extent that she helped him get started and so bears some of his guilt. I think she did have a child, but not by Macbeth, but by a previous husband, and so that is a very small motivating factor in why she was so woefully ambitious. At that time, women were taught from birth that they were only good for one of two things: to have children who would outlive them, or if they were fortunate, to be wives to powerful men. Having not succeeded in the former, she proceeded to do all she could to be successful in the latter. Otherwise, according to the harsh standards of the time, her life would be considered waste. To be Queen of Scotland would’ve been worth anything, to be wife to the most powerful man in the country. Here, as she sleepwalks and is deeply grieved by what cost she became Queen, she is obviously reliving multiple events of her life, all of them tragic in one way or another. Sometimes she is addressing her dead child as though he were alive, sometimes she is addressing her husband as she fails to try and control his own guilt and hallucinations, and sometimes she is addressing no one in particular, merely stating sad facts to herself that she has learnt the hard way. Her revived conscience is now pointing at herself and reminding her of her crimes, which soon after drives her to suicide. She cannot do anything to reverse the damage, and yet she knows that is her only hope. With that hope gone, all she feels she can do is silence her conscience (and herself with it) forever, so that the constant torture of her mind might have some conclusion. She is both a villain and a tragic figure, a lost soul that can never be saved, because she has caused as much suffering to others as her own suffering.

The most perfectly showcased sleepwalking scene , amongst the other videos here on youtube

Music near the end?

Who is the producer of the movie?

Impresionante, Marion!!!!!

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Hello, I found your comment very interesting. Mainly because there is an appreciation of the characters’ point of view. But I read the work and was surprised by the film because I imagined Lady Macbeth in a different way, I felt the character was more intense, more dramatic in the book. However, I thought that the interpretation given by the actress, although acclaimed by critics, left something to be desired, as it did not reflect the dramas of a murderer in an intense and dramatic way. For example, that hand scene where Lady sees her hands covered in blood, is a scene where the character is going crazy and I didn't see the actress reflecting this in her performance.

brilliant. that's the only word I can mange off my awestruck brain

❤

It's all fine but she doesn't come across as raving mad which seems to me to be the whole point of it.

so sad😓

there were better lady Macbeth than Cotillard. But she really got let her imprint here, her sensivity, a strong one.

It's so beautiful

omfg who is that child?? there's no child in this scene!! is it lady Macbeth's child?? oh my God who is that child?!?

Was this whole film recorded in a library? Everyone sure likes to whisper. . .

Marion Cotillard was BORN to play Lady Macbeth and she is so beautiful.

I have a essay question on this and the question is “What was lady Macbeth doing?” Can someone help me pls 🥺🥺

Unbelievable acting.

She will be great as Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ !!!

Goddamn, Cotillard is good in this. Talented, prolific, and beautiful. She has it all.

I've never seen this particular adaptation, but I can say it's not at all as powerful for me as Judi Dench and Kate Fleetwood. As someone who has done both stage and film I know that they are two entirely different beasts. That being said, the minimalism for this scene didn't work got me. I've always been an advocate for switching things up but this piece either needed more or needed to stay traditional.

Quite nice. Did you notice she was almost not blinking at all? this facilitates the tears ;-)

Yes epic

And people said/still say she was miscast Smh

👏🏽👸🏻🤴🏻🌟

I found this version to be very quiet and bland. It didn’t show the darkness of the tale of Macbeth. To name a few points, the witches were not sinister enough, Lady Macbeth was shown to be too weak in my eyes and Macbeth went in the opposite direction personality wise. I thought he showed more compassion towards the end than the start. I personally didn’t like it and I thought it was very boring...

You do not understand my love. Only through your thighs. Between your legs. Feeling each thrust and the hardness of your hands on my back. That I may learn love. Your love is infinite. The sweatiness of your arms caressing me at night. As the coldness of the room feels my lungs and mouth. How could I show mercy to myself. The sweat of your inner lips dripping on my phalux breaks my comfort as a man. I become a slave to you as I only wait for that sweet release.

I Know this kind of art normally doesnt need to be explained and it should not be explained. But i am really curious about what she said because i didnt fully understand, so maybe someone could help me?

Okay, I'm going to say this: This scene is trash. I get that the director wanted something to set it apart from the millions of other Shakespeare adaptations. But this is the handwashing scene with no handwashing. There's no connection with the "My hands are of your color" or the "a little water clears us of this deed" lines. You can't even tell what "here's a spot" is supposed to refer to. "Will these hands ne'er be clean" has no hands that she's looking at. She's just sitting there. She could be a narrator or a line-reader. By this point in the movie I was already somewhat dubious, but this scene broke it entirely for me. It's one of the most chilling moments in the play and they turned it into a woman sitting on the floor whispering.

This scene dosen't make sense at all. Shes supposed to be sleepwalking after succumbing to madness, not just having a cry.

Am I the only one who's thinks she looks like smeagol?

She was the only good performance in this sorry movie. What a disaster it was, as bad as the Coen version later.

Thank God Harvey Weinstein exist so we can enjoy such beautiful movies.

Serously??? zzzzz.......

i love her lack of energy, go girl give us nothing!

good but extremely common acting... not a genuine Tragedienne