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…
Beautifully shot but boring? My main takeaway from this was that Nicole Kidman could poison me and I wouldn't be mad about it.
I just could not get into this movie. It is well shot and the acting is spot on, but the story seems to just drag. I was not invested in the theme, and maybe the worst was that it just abruptly ends on a strange note. All said, I can see why some people would love this film, it just was not my type of film.
Kirsten Dunst was my first celebrity crush when I saw Spider-Man. She's great. I'm glad Jesse Plemons and her are getting married. He's great too. Also this film’s cinematography is amazing.
Sophia Coppola has a way with whispery colors and lighting, which are accented by feminine costuming.
This film feels very soft even though the characters deal with harsh realities.
The thing about Coppola is that at a certain point in her movies I become immune to their aesthetic and start to get fidgety. This movie veils so much storytelling in that aesthetic that its impossible to get fidgety, even as the first 2/3 move at a glacial pace.
An entirely average experience only made better by Colin Farrell’s fantastic performance, but this factor alone doesn’t make up for the messy editing, odd tonal shifts and unfortunately poor child performances. It’s nowhere near to becoming a “bad” film but it’s certainly one that won’t be remembered, I finished it 20 minutes ago and I can barely think of a stand out moment!
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