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- 2017
- R
- Focus Features
- 1 h 33 m
- 2017
- R
- Focus Features
- 1 h 33 m
Summary The story unfolds during the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school. Its sheltered 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.
Directed By: Sofia Coppola
Written By: Thomas Cullinan, Albert Maltz, Irene Kamp, Sofia Coppola
- 2017
- R
- Focus Features
- 1 h 33 m
- 2017
- R
- Focus Features
- 1 h 33 m
The Beguiled
77
6.1
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Summary The story unfolds during the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school. Its sheltered 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.
Directed By: Sofia Coppola
Written By: Thomas Cullinan, Albert Maltz, Irene Kamp, Sofia Coppola
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 45 Critic Reviews
77
84% Positive
38 Reviews
38 Reviews
16% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 45 Critic Reviews
77
84% Positive
38 Reviews
38 Reviews
16% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Witty, menacing and steamy (in every sense), The Beguiled is an intelligent update and Coppola’s best work to date. Oscars await.
Though it borrows some of the gauzy mood of The Virgin Suicides, it’s essentially unlike any other Sofia Coppola film, a serene, supple picture that hits more than a few notes of despair.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 204 User Ratings
6.1
50% Positive
103 Ratings
103 Ratings
32% Mixed
65 Ratings
65 Ratings
18% Negative
36 Ratings
36 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 204 User Ratings
6.1
50% Positive
103 Ratings
103 Ratings
32% Mixed
65 Ratings
65 Ratings
18% Negative
36 Ratings
36 Ratings
I enjoyed this movie much. On the Alfred Hitchcock path,which turns and the public or viewer much decide for themselves who is the guilty party, male or female? In fact, the movie made me open and account to write a review and think about reading the book. So yes, this movie is a must see, regardless of any negative review. The movie invites the audience to decide. Loved it.
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This film is not for everyone. It is subtle and requires attention, but if you can give the film that, the experience is very rewarding. I guess you’d have to say it is a typical Sofia Coppola film such as Lost in Translation and The Bling Ring. Another problem is the misleading trailer. What happens to the wounded soldier at the hands of Nicole Kidman is not as sensational as the trailer implies and has nothing directly to do with castration. Within the immediate events of the film, it makes perfect sense, although what is going on underneath is another matter. The cast is wonderful, especially Colin Farrell, Kidman, and Kirsten Dunst. This is a great film, although I am not sure yet if it is a classic, but certainly Coppola deserved her Best Director award at Cannes.
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Coppola and her production team — including The Grandmaster cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd — have created a fully realized world of eroticism, humidity, and Southern Gothic atmosphere. The characters are simply engulfed by it, almost to the point that even the twisted willow trees appear to be reaching out to grab them.
The Beguiled has its jolts and its laughs, but mostly this glides along like a mildly saucy yet poetically made parable, well-dressed, well-designed and well-performed.
For all its smarts, however,the film feels the slightest bit impersonal and risk-free. Coppola has been faulted in various quarters for dropping a female slave from her remake.
The Beguiled serves as proof that what goes for naturalism in Sofia Coppola’s dominion still verges on being decorative to the point of self-parody.
There is barely a graceless frame in the whole affair.
Visually sumptuous and beautifully understated. Sofia Coppola has directed with assured confidence her best film to date, a remake of the 1971 version starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page. The screenplay quietly bristles with sexual subtext and Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning are more than equal to the demands placed upon them by so intelligent a re-imagining, where subtlety is the order of the day. One is left compelled,gripped and exhilarated. Definitely better than the original.
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Beautifully shot and really well directed. The performances are all good, even if Nicole Kidman's southern accent slips into australian way too often.
It does, however, feel very emotionally empty. Whatever emotion I was suppose to feel during certain scenes just wasn't there (the most emotion I felt was when Colin Farrell threw Henry the turtle). For a long time it feels like the story is going nowhere, until it takes a turn in the last thirty minutes, and even then it starts to drag.
There's also one moment towards the end where one of the characters implies something, and I thought it was pretty smart how they managed to get the idea across in just one line of dialogue, but then the characters just proceed to explain very unambiguously what they're talking about, which was very disappointing.
Still, the film is very well made and it definitley has a lot more going for it than againts it, it's just a shame that none of it will really stay with me.
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The unexpected arrival of Colin Farrell causes mayhem in school full of “vengeful b****s (his words). That’s the short version but it’s enough to know you should definitely skip this one. It's the American Civil War. Open with a scenic shot of the woods with lots of cricket sound effects. Then you get another scenic shot of a house accompanied by more crickets. Followed by another shot of the house at sunset and from a slightly different angle and you can see where this is going. I’m not faulting the cinematography but it’s so in your face constantly it loses any desired effect.
The school of prim and proper ladies run by Nicole Kidman decide to take in a wounded soldier while he recovers. Can they trust him or can he trust them? Right away I was expecting a tense and suspenseful gothic drama instead I got bland, non-engaging and lots of running around the house with flowy nightgowns and candles. All tied together with acting so bad it will make you laugh. Not from Kidman of course, she carries the movie but that’s simply not enough. I’ve never seen the original but I’m willing to bet it’s better than this remake. Not recommended, seriously I wasted my time so there’s no need to waste yours.
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Really did not care for it. A lot of "atmosphere" ? I guess. I wanted to get some fresh air the whole time I saw it. Really hard to believe this was from a novel. Seemed like a short story plot with a twist (slow in coming and kind of like Poe's stories). Just not very much of a movie. If this is female empowerment I think Wonder Woman would have been better!
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Production Company
American Zoetrope,
FR Productions
Release Date Jun 23, 2017
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating R
Tagline Innocent, until betrayed.
Awards
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 3 Wins & 9 Nominations
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
• 3 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
