We’re certainly intrigued by Nia DaCosta‘s visually enthralling Hedda starring Tessa Thompson as a high society socialite who finds herself ensnared in a lusty conundrum which unfolds over the course of one particularly charged night.

Based on Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, Hedda Gabler, the provocative reimagining smolders when Hedda—a bored newlywed with long-repressed desires—pulls herself and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal.

“Hedda is someone who wants people’s animals to come out,” said DaCosta in an interview with Vanity Fair. “She just feels like everyone is cowardly, everyone’s lying. She has this deepening emptiness inside of her that makes her do things she doesn’t understand—and she is living in a world that she doesn’t get.”

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