Coppola’s most traditional film to date is a heightened, darkly comic, sexually tense drama that flips the male gaze, to show what happens when a man, for once, gets caught in the crosshairs of desire.
Witty, menacing and steamy (in every sense), The Beguiled is an intelligent update and Coppola’s best work to date. Oscars await.
Reflecting its title, The Beguiled is made in such an enchanting and delicate fashion that we don’t realise immediately just how dark and morbid it really is.
Another pristine bauble of melancholy from a remarkable director.
Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman star in this tremendously watchable tale of a civil war deserter in the US who takes refuge in a girls’ school.
There are a lot of individual elements to admire in The Beguiled but it still remains hard to take seriously.
Sofia Coppola’s dreamy, ‘woman’s eye’ adaptation of a US civil war story brings the battleground indoors.
Elle Fanning on her 'scandalous' character in The Beguiled.
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