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Jun 23, 2017 garish melodrama becomes universal tragedy the beguiled sofia coppola has taken a 1971 southern gothic psychodrama directed by a man and remade it from a female perspective and the result is. 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. June 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. The cast are colin farrell, emma howard, matt story, oona laurence, kirsten dunst, angourie rice, nicole kidman, joel albin, elle fanning and addison riecke. As with coppolas debut, the virgin suicides 1999, character is swallowed up in mood. Sofia coppolas film the beguiled is not as much a remake as it is a re imaging. Sofia coppolas the beguiled is a remake of one of the two films directed by don siegel and starring clint eastwood that were released in 1971 the other was dirty harry but coppola makes it her own by giving it the female perspective it needs and which the thomas p. The beguiled runs for ninetyfour minutes, and even those feel like a stretch. Jul 03, 2017 the beguiled is a 2017 american drama film written and directed by sofia coppola, based on the novel the beguiled originally published as a painted devil by thomas p.
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