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…
I wasn't expecting to be able to relate to a bunch of white ladies so much but they all wanted to bone Colin farrell so bad
I'm seeing this again tonight, so I'd prefer to wait until I've seen it a second time to rate it. Anyone who's talked to me about movies knows that I'm a big proponent of seeing movies more than once in order to really understand them. Maybe that's just me, I'm someone that really needs to sit with a movie for more than one viewing to feel like I've got it. This is all wrapped up in the way our expectations of what a film should be conflict with what a film is.
I'll write some more polished thoughts tomorrow, but for now I'll say a few things:
- I love the way Sofia Coppola was able to make these characters…
I'm seeing it again tomorrow, so I'm gonna wait till after that to write a full review. I was so excited and high off seeing Sofia Coppola that my viewing may be a bit effected by that. Here's something small though:
The Beguiled is humid af. Incredible performances, hilarious quirks, beautiful photography, and sexy claustrophobia at its finest.
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Ps. I stood 2 ft from Sofia Coppola. I had a conversation with Quentin Tarantino and he shook my hand. The Q&A between the the two of them (probably the two people responsible for my love of film) was the most surreal thing ever.
First Impression: Coppola captures sighs and whispers amidst the drums of war.
The fact that I went to a free screening and got a free T-shirt by posting on social media made this viewing experience all the more #beguiling. Yes I'm the worst. Also, the subtleties of Nicole Kidman's acting range are the stuff of dreams.
"that would have been a really good short film" -the woman next to me in the bathroom talking to her friend after the movie
I'm in Los Angeles for my 20th birthday and this is the first movie I see here......... amazing. Huge complaint with the length. WAY TOO SHORT. Should've been 3 hours.
savory, exquisite. 85% of this movie is nothing but different shades of gazing; 85% of this movie stopped my heart. an invigorating next-step for one of the best artists in the world.
The Beguiled is not only Sofia Coppola's best directed movie, but also is the best new release I've seen so far this year (at least until Baby Driver!). The way she handles the Civil War era is done with such grace you can't help but feel like you're immediately in another time. I'm not 100% certain on this, but I'm pretty sure it was lit with completely natural lighting, making the comparison to Barry Lyndon with not only lighting, but style and a 1.66 aspect ratio. The performances are all wonderful. Nicole Kidman is probably the stand out, even though I loved everyone in the movie. The movie will stay with me for some time. There is an ambiguity to…
9/10
"Bon Appetite."
I'm incredibly shocked at how much I loved this. As much as I love some of Sofia Coppola's other works her last two recent films were...underwhelming. But what I got out of this was The Virgin Suicides in the South.
The Beguiled is not only superior to the original Don Speigel film but way more complex and interesting than that film. Instead of focusing on the Soldier it's more of a study on this women getting a taste of the outside world and can express themselves more.
Coppola shows us how to do vague storytelling properly. Her use of emptiness and space makes the film more satisfying than the original. The female characters are a lot more interesting than in the original film.
This is definitely one of the more satisfying films I've seen this year. This is the Sofia Coppola I love and I'm glad she's back and here to stay.
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