The Beguiled, a Sofia Coppola film is a second adaptation yet has a totally different feel from the first movie by Don Seigel’s in 1971. Coppola has a gift showing all the emotions of women while also showing their power. Set in the south during the Civil War, you are captured in the first scene when a young girl is simply gathering mushrooms. She stumbles across a wounded soldier of the Union Army, John McBurney (Colin Farrell) and decided to try to help him. She brings him back to the house at the school she resides at with six other women. The teacher Edwina (Kirsten Dunst) and student Alicia (Elle Fanning) do not want this soldier here in fear that he will rape them. Martha (Nicole Kidman) said the Christian thing to do is to help him heal and they will then turn him over to the Confederates. 

Each frame is an art piece and you will follow along with the emotional roller coaster of the women’s feelings. John plays to each of the women preys upon their weaknesses. Martha, the stern head of the school, understands she is responsible to make the hard decisions. As the story progresses you are holding your breath for these women. They have only one choice, to become #VengefulBitches! 

THE BEGUILED opens in theaters June 23, 2017 

“The Beguiled” is an atmospheric thriller from acclaimed writer/director Sofia Coppola. 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.

Director: Sofia Coppola (“Lost in Translation,” “Somewhere”)

Writer: Sofia Coppola,

based on the novel by Thomas Cullinan and the screenplay by Albert Maltz and Grimes Grice

Cast: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning,

Oona Laurence, Angourie Rice, Addison Riecke, Emma Howard

MPAA Rating: R

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