The Beguiled (2017)
During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, 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.
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Waste of time
Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Blistering performances.
Although this film has many merits on its own standing, when compared to Don Siegel's 1971 release, this production lacks the guts that the original had. The Eastwood version portrayed the manipulation by McB as a deep, tricky web. Whereas this film struggled to show his true intentions. The film itself, when not compared, definitely stands on its own two legs. The reduced aspect ratio along with the production design and costume makes the civil war era come to life. The acting is as good as it gets. However, it is what is SHOWN in the film that is its downfall. The original had hypnotic and artistic moments bookending the film. It had a gut-wrenching amputation scene that this version skips over entirely. The sexual manipulation between the three main female leads by Colin Farrell's character is not as evenly spread as the original making the ending less entirely less dramatic. They have extracted much of the complexity of all the characters, such as Nicole Kidman's character's previous relationship is gone completely. As another review read, this film is not a horror and I feel as though Sofia Coppola would have done better if she had stuck closer to that line.
Nothing happens, the film doesn't do anything daring or try to innovate, and i couldn't wait to get out of the theater. what a waste of money and of my time.
I don't watch new movies often bc I have a baby and am exhausted. But I thought I'd treat myself tonight on HBO Now. Oh my God! What a waste of my time! No character development AT ALL. Why did Colin Farrel leave Dublin? Was he a gardener? Why is Kirsten Dunst fluent in French and wants to get as far away from the school as possible? Why is Elle Fanning such a fluzy? What happened to Nikole Kidman's previous life? This was all such crap. I should've turned it off-but was waiting for the answers to my questions. Then all of a sudden, it was over. Didn't even include cool music soundtrack that Coppola usually pairs. Sucked donkey balls!
My first review though to little, to late. This movie moved me after years of not participating to write a review. Total waste but waited and waited for anything. No redeeming value except maybe a lovely setting around a southern mansion that had me longing for something to tie it to. I have an expensive projector for my 108" screen so dark scenes can be problematic once in a while. This whole movie was in the dark! Ridiculous! Big budget actors that did nothing to come up to their acting skills. I blame the producer for thinking she had something special. No way.