2017 Directed by Sofia Coppola
During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.
Between “The Virgin Suicides” and “Marie Antoinette,” it was already quite clear that Sofia Coppola loves watching Kirsten Dunst struggle to make peace with some kind of purgatory. In “The Beguiled,” the mustiest and most conventionally entertaining film of Coppola’s brilliant career, Dunst is once again cast as a woman with so much to give and nowhere to go, but this is the first of her characters who actually has a legitimate hope of escaping from her limbo.
Alas, peace can be hard to come by in the middle of a war, and freedom even harder. And if Edwina Dabney wants to get herself out of the Confederacy, she might have to let the Union inside first.
Ruthlessly shorn from…
sofia coppola has outdone herself. truly the most beautiful film of the year so far, fucking terrifying and tense with insanely brilliant performances. so perfectly paced and composed, I can't stop shaking.
"Is he dead?"
"No. Not yet."
Much more playful & much less suspenseful than the trailer would lead you to believe. By telling this story through the eyes of the women, Coppola is able to milk the comedy of the situation. I mean, imagine being a young, chaste girl with very little exposure to men, and then Colin fucking Farrell suddenly shows up in your home. Not to mention he's injured, weak, and seemingly downright pleasant.
Of course, nothing is ever this simple. We know going into this film, as it is a retelling of the eponymous 1966 novel, that this is not going to end well. These "vengeful bitches" add a femininity (in the conventional sense of the word) to…
While I like the cinematography of this film I found the plot kind of boring and disappointing. No tension ever really built for me, so there were no repercussions that I actually cared about.
Sophia Coppola's film uses the source novel and Don Siegel's 1971 version in parts, but largely changes the focus to make the female protagonists the centre of our attention.
At the height of the US Civil war a young girl finds a badly wounded Yankee soldier in the Virginia woods near her school. Taking him into the school headmistress Martha (Nicole Kidman) determines he will die if they hand him over to local rebel forces immediately - instead they will nurse him back to health first.
The small group of staff and students remaining at this genteel school for young ladies are initially ambivalent about Corporal McBurney (Colin Farrell) but as he starts to recover the impact of a charming…
sofia coppolas really just arent for me, but i keep trying anyway. actually kinda enjoyed this one tho
Um Coppola's lace virginal Petra Collins-esque aesthetic doesn't save her AGAIN. I had no attachment to any of the characters and the films blatant black erasure took so much depth out of it. Coppola will always try to make heroic problematic white gals just bc they have an outstanding wardrobe in the true neoliberal spirit. but 3/5 for visuals omg
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