The beguiled new zealand international film festival. The beguiled, sofia coppolas new film, looks like a historical drama its set in virginia during the civil war but it often behaves more like a fairy tale. Farrell plays a wounded union army soldier taken in by nicole. The reader is mesmerized with horror by what goes on in that forgotten school for young. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with.
Sofia coppola turns to the dark side with the beguiled. Bbc culture the beguiled is a steamy southern gothic horror. Get the latest movie schedules delivered to your inbox. Just click the edit page button at the bottom of the page or learn more in. Then pick up a copy of beguiled by coauthors deeanne gist and mark bertrand. Check out the new trailer starring elle fanning, kirsten dunst, and nicole kidman. In the beguiled, a girls school turns out to be an. The first trailer for the beguiled, director sofia coppolas first film in 4 years arrives and shows off its gloomy american gothic charm. Jul 07, 2017 sofia coppolas new movie, the beguiled, is based on the 1966 novel of the same title by thomas p. Eastwood highlights each of the primary actors including himself as well as director don siegel. But a lot of people are literally betting that they wont make it into town alive. He seeks refuge at an allfemale southern boarding school where the teachers and. The beguiled, based on a 1966 novel by thomas cullinan previously filmed in 1971, starring clint eastwood and geraldine page, won the best director award at. The authors not only created a clever mystery with endearing characters, they bring historic charleston to life for the reader.
Watch the beguiled trailers and video, including teasers, extended looks, exclusive clips, footage, sneak peeks, interviews, and more on moviefone. The beguiled, follows a group of women at an allgirls boarding school during the civil war. No hollywood family has earned more oscar glory than the coppolas, and sofia coppolas new movie, the beguiled, made her the second woman in history to win best director at the cannes film festival this year. The beguiled is precise in its understatement and its one of those movies that refuses categorization and therefore tends to get lost in the shuffle. Martha farnsworth nicole kidman is the head of a confederate girls boarding school located in virginia during the civil war. The beguiled sexploitation inverted financial times. The beguiled is an atmospheric thriller from acclaimed writerdirector sofia coppola, winner of the best director award at the 2017 cannes international film festival. The story unfolds during the civil war, at a southern girls boarding school. When i left the movie theater after seeing sofia coppolas rendition of the beguiled, i felt like the beguiled one. On sofia coppola and the whitewashing controversy of the. But the movie stops short of being the radical retelling it could have been. The beguiled is an atmospheric thriller from acclaimed writerdirector sofia coppola. It was selected to compete for the palme dor at 2017 cannes film festival.
It took me three sittings to get through it, the pacing is atrocious, i know they were aiming for subtle, but they misjudged it, and as a viewer youre left fighting to stay awake. Director sofia coppola on new film, the beguiled, and why. The beguiled ist ein usamerikanisches filmdrama aus dem jahr 2017. Jun 21, 2017 director sofia coppola on new film, the beguiled, and why she chose to do a remake. May 03, 2017 the beguiled is an atmospheric thriller from acclaimed writerdirector sofia coppola, winner of the best director award at the 2017 cannes international film festival. Some of the best clint eastwood films in his early career are all westerns, helmed by either sergio or some other directors in that genre. Jun 27, 2017 the beguiled, based on a 1966 novel by thomas cullinan previously filmed in 1971, starring clint eastwood and geraldine page, won the best director award at the cannes film festival in may. John mcburney is an injured union soldier who finds himself on the run as a deserter during the civil war.
The beguiled is a thriller from acclaimed writerdirector sofia coppola. The script was written by albert maltz and is based on the 1966 novel written by thomas p. Its sheltered young women take in an injured enemy soldier. Offbeat civil war drama in which a wounded yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls school in the south towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young womens sexual.
The beguiled is a steamy southern gothic horror bbc. Jun 23, 2017 the beguiled comes from a long line of civil war and reconstruction era films that would rather ignore the issue of race than face it. The original 1971 rendition of the beguiled is a subtle, snaking psychosexual thriller, in which we watch clint eastwood in the same year and paired with the same director as dirty harry visually peruse and victimize a school full of schoolaged girls and their female teachers. May 24, 2017 the beguiled is a steamy southern gothic horror. Kirsten dunst, elle fanning, colin farrell, nicole kidman. John mcburney, a wounded union soldier during the civil war, who takes refuge in a primandproper southern girls school run by martha farnsworth more. The movie is a sprawling invitation to the male gaze, in which one woman after another falls into the honey. The beguiled official trailer 2 universal pictures hd youtube. The beguiled, a film adaptation disambiguation page providing links to topics that could be referred to by the same search term this disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title beguiled. Find out where the beguiled 2017 is streaming, if the beguiled 2017 is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider.
On sofia coppola and the whitewashing controversy of the beguiled sofia coppola has taken heat this week for her representation issues in her newest film. The beguiled is a 2017 american southern gothic film written and directed by sofia coppola, based on the novel of the same name originally published as a painted devil by thomas p. The best palme dor nominees for cannes film festival 2017 ken loach wins second palme dor at cannes leonardo dicaprio auctions off week at. Perhaps too, it was difficult for audiences to except eastwood as such a calculating character who uses his masculine charms to get his way. Sofia coppola goes gothic updated gemma dodd feb 8, 2017. Colin farrell plays a wounded civil war mercenary under the care of a commune of young women, led by nicole kidman, in sofia coppolas beautiful, feminist take on don siegels 1971 southern gothic psychodrama. In don siegels gothic civil war western, from 1971, a wounded union soldier clint eastwood plants a slow and tender kiss on the lips of the twelveyearold girl who rescues him, and she likes it. Its certainly oscar bait, for both director and star.
As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and. Sofia coppolas the beguiled tears apart the original. The beguiled trailer brings colin farrell and nicole. The original is sweaty, gritty with flawed and desperate characters. Theres grace to be found in the beguiled, and delicacy, but whats most interesting is the brutality and power that seethe beneath the surface. Jun 29, 2017 in flattering, flickering candlelight conjured by cinematographer philippe le sourd, whose muted work echoes kubricks barry lyndon and the godfathers famous dark palette, a highly civil war is fought around the dinner table, within each pulsing heart and among the rivalrous women desiring farrell against their principles. View who sings all the songs, stream additional tunes playlist, and credits used in the movie. The characters in beguiled are well developed and believable. Coppolas the beguiled very neatly restores one silenced side of the storys narrative, where the women are transformed from punchline to storyteller. View hd trailers and videos for the beguiled on rotten tomatoes, then check our tomatometer to find out what the critics say. Beneath the incessant chirp of crickets, explosions rumble like distant thunder. John mcburney colin farrell is a corporal in the 66th new york and wounded in the leg while fighting somewhere in virginia in the summer of 1864. It looks like we dont have any plot summaries for this title yet. Sofia coppolas dreamy, womans eye adaptation of a us civil war story brings the battleground indoors.
German hindi icelandic norwegian portuguese spanish swedish turkish. One day, one of the girls, amy oona laurence, discovers injured. Five of the best new films war for the planet of the apes and the beguiled. The german beauty left very little to the imagination in a slashed gown which. The beguiled movie tiein by thomas cullinan, paperback. The beguiled 2017, written and directed by sofia coppola, is a remake no one asked for, visually beautiful but emotionally monochrome.
During the us civil war, a wounded union soldier cons the inhabitants of a confederate girls boarding school into turning on each other. Sep 01, 2000 a hard but mediocre cop is assigned to escort a prostitute into custody from las vegas to phoenix, so that she can testify in a mob trial. Read scene descriptions after the film plays at the cinema. The beguiled is not so much a lovetriangle movie as a love hexagon, with colin farrell at its centre and its a hoot.
Jan 04, 2018 the first trailer for the beguiled, director sofia coppolas first film in 4 years arrives and shows off its gloomy american gothic charm. The beguiled movie simple english wikipedia, the free. Despite being well acted and beautifully made, this film is one of the most boring things ive ever say through. This remake of the beguiled looks too good on the surface. The beguiled is a 1971 american southern gothic film directed by don siegel, starring clint eastwood and geraldine page. Sofia coppola twists an old clint eastwood vehicle, the. A return to thomas cullinans novel of the same name, sofia coppolas the beguiled offers a more female centric take on don siegels clint eastwood starring adaptation. Its an admirable project and an admirable result, albeit with obvious and avoidable pitfalls in casting and scope. The beguiled is a freudian mood piece from the team of actor clint eastwood and director don siegel. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Clint eastwood shone in the spaghetti westerns in the 60s and 70s and particularly, his collaborations with director sergio leone struck gold many times.
The film unfolds in a girls school in the state of virginia in 1864. Oct 21, 2017 the beguiled watch and download the beguiled 1080 px. Farrell plays corporal john mcburney, the luckiest civil war yankee. The beguiled 2017 where to stream and watch decider. While miss emily acts alone to accomplish her revenge, the women of miss martha farnsworths young ladies academy join forces in calculating retaliation against their unscrupulous invader. English, arabic, spanish, danish, finnish, german, hindi, icelandic. But a lot of people are literally betting that they wont make it.
It completely misses the most important elements of the story and why events unfold as they do. Cullinans novel a painted devil that was first adapted to film in 1971 with clint eastwood, the beguiled centers around three women in a boarding school in the confederate. Be the first to check out trailers and movie teasersclips dropping soon. In the beguiled, pretty confections whipped up to seduce. It looks like we dont have any external sites for this title yet. Jun 22, 2017 the beguiled, sofia coppolas new film, looks like a historical drama its set in virginia during the civil war but it often behaves more like a fairy tale. And thus it is in the beguiled, for both male and females are the beguiled and the beguilers. Jun 30, 2017 in the beguiled, pretty confections whipped up to seduce.
Shot in baton rouge, louisiana, under the malpaso production company, it has a running time of 12 minutes and provides a behindthescenes look at the making of the 1971 film, the beguiled. As the civil war rages, the miss martha farnsworth seminary for young ladies has been sheltered from the outside world until the day a wounded union soldier is discovered nearby and taken in. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. I had wanted to see this movie after viewing the very first trailer and i left wanting those ninetythree minutes of my life back. The beguiled official trailer universal pictures canada. Kirsten dunst stars as the maidenly edwina, who teaches french at a girls boarding school, in the beguiled, sofia coppola.
Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. Alphachimp caesar earns his epic finale, while colin farrell stars in a feminist. Why some critics brought out the knives three male critics use highly charged language when criticizing the beguiled. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title beguiled. Aug 03, 2017 a return to thomas cullinans novel of the same name, sofia coppolas the beguiled offers a more female centric take on don siegels clint eastwood starring adaptation. If you enjoy coppolas directing, i think youll enjoy her storytelling again in the beguiled. The storyteller is the first documentary short ever directed by clint eastwood. Colin farrell is a rooster in a hen house in the first trailer for sofia coppolas civil warera seduction thriller the beguiled. I wont say how or why this genre switch occurs, because while the beguiled is more plotdriven than any of coppolas previous work, the. It stars nicole kidman, kirsten dunst, and elle fanning. You love to hate or hate to love clint eastwoods mr. The beguiled, adapted by sofia coppola from thomas cullinans novel of the same name, unfolds in a girls school in the state of virginia in 1864. Colin farrell plays a wounded civil war soldier given shelter by a mississippi seminary for young ladies. Buy film documentaire book online at best prices in india on.