NEW YORK • Chloe Sevigny is cutting to the chase. Tired of being defined more by her off-screen It Girl aura than by her acting, even though she was nominated for an Oscar for Boys Don't Cry (1999), she produced Lizzie so she could, for the first time in her 50-film career, play the lead part.
Set in 1892, the movie - a take on Lizzie Borden and the infamous axe murders - finds a rage-filled Borden (Sevigny) romancing Kristen Stewart's Irish housemaid and literally smashing the patriarchy (in the face, with an axe) in a series of scenes involving full nudity.
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