The Beguiled (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 94 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Sofia Coppola
Stars: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst
IMDb score:
6,3 (65.871)
Releasedate: 23 June 2017
The Beguiled plot
"Innocent, until betrayed."
During the American Civil War, an injured Yank is locked up in a girls' school in the southern United States. The women soon fall for his charms. However, a climate of hatred and deceit develops between the women themselves, and ultimately against him as well.
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Actors and actresses
Corporal John McBurney
Martha Farnsworth
Edwina Morrow
Alicia
Amy
Jane
Marie
Emily
Captain
Confederate Soldier
Reviews & comments
mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
An inferior remake on almost every front of an unusual but intriguing Eastwood vehicle in which a wounded enemy soldier (Colin Farrell) finds help and shelter in a girls' boarding school in Virginia, not far from an 1864 American Civil War battlefield. Its presence arouses erotic feelings. with Miss Martha [Nicole Kidman], the boarding school leader, teacher Edwina [Kirsten Dunst] and teenage slut Alicia [Elle Fanning].
Coppola the director does her best to approximate the eerie atmosphere of the original, but her simplistic approach as a screenwriter makes that impossible. The original was a pleasantly perverse psychological play between Eastwood and his female caretakers, Farrell here is nothing more than a victim for sexually frustrated women. The characterizations are weak and give the three female protagonists little to hold on to, so that their characters do not come into their own. Kidman's playing borders on the neurotic, Dunst's stiff portrayal doesn't make her sexual transformation any more believable and Fanning's sex is on top of it. Addison Riecke and Oona Lawrence are the only bright spots as Marie and Amy, respectively, the school's two youngest students in this beautifully filmed but dull psychological drama.
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Film Pegasus (moderator films)
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- 31191 messages
- 5473 votes
With this film, Sofia Coppola won the director's prize in Cannes as the second woman. Rightly so, because she turns it into a very charming gem that stands out above all visually. The cast isn't exactly great, but they don't do badly and they do match.
The film has mainly become a literary romantic melodrama. Soft warm colors and beautiful shots. With a quiet view and central to the house and the greenery around it. Other figures are also mainly portrayed from afar. Visitors to the gate are filmed from a little further away, in the house they only come into view for a moment and then disappear back into another room. It revolves around the women and the corporal. The war is always present, but is also really depicted in the distance. This ensures that the focus is entirely on the story, but the atmosphere is always present underneath.
A movie for the fans. The film is a bit slower, which is nice of course. With a small cozy story where the necessary tension and romance go together.
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Brandt
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- 364 messages
- 293 votes
20 years ago I was very surprised by Don Siegel's version starring a great Clint Eastwood. Where Siegel filmed from the male perspective, Sofia Coppola chooses the angle from the women's perspective and is much more subtle in this. The star cast is on a roll, the staging is beautiful, but this version doesn't really hit me. It's all a bit distant. Had hoped that Coppola would really put her own spin on it, but it only partially succeeded.
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