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.
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 Seigel 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.
"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…
An exquisite work by Sofia Coppola.
All the ladies in thus film are pretty awesome especially Kidman and Dunst.
A nice development of Sofia Coppola's focus on socially isolated groups in a setting outside her usual comfort zone. Almost all the music is diegetic, performed by the characters, accompanied by the rumbling of distant war constantly threatening to unsettle the fragile sanctuary that they inhabit. The lack of non-diegetic sound removes the distance that Coppola has to the characters in some of her other movies, creating a really tense pressure cooker.
It feels like Colin Farrell is on screen the most, but he's mostly a black box and most of the story is in how he affects the girls and women of the house. Without having read the book or seen the 1971 film it sounds like a better…
an accurate account of what would happen if you'd have to share the house with Colin Farrell and another bunch of women
Il film dura solo un'ora e mezza ma sembra lunghissimo perché non succede nulla.
La prima metà si può riassumere in donne che fanno le civette per l'unico uomo che vedono dopo un secolo e l'uomo che ci prova con tutte.
Quando dopo 40 minuti questo civettare finisce accade un evento che porta il film fino alla sua conclusione troppo frettolosa e poco interessante.
SI salvano regia, fotografia e attori/attrici molto bravi/e
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