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…
Pelicula buenísima sobre la importancia de los crushes y lo mal que acaba todo cuando pasas de idealizarlos a relacionarte con ellos de verdad. ❤️
So much more emotional than The Bling Ring, to its benefit. The choice to set this tale of sexual rivalry in a place and time of ruthless repression is inspired, and the setting lends itself well to some gorgeous photography. On the downside, I think the cast is too large for the tension to build in an entirely satisfying way; there are too many persons to track, and we don’t get enough of the characters interacting with one another in intimate settings because of it.
This was very well done. It builds the tension slowly and I was invested in the story the whole time.
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