The Beguiled
Overview
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.
Reviews (3)
Reno (Rated: 7)
The lust and the destruction!
I neither read the book, nor seen the original film. It was a small slice of the American civil war. But did not focused on the actual war. A fictional drama that followed an injured soldier who sheltered in a girls school was looked after well by the stayed back...
Gimly (Rated: 5)
A well acted Civil War drama, but one that perhaps would have played better on the stage of a theatre than the screen of a cinema.
Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.
Martin Oaks (Rated: 4)
Talent is not inherited
It is a shame that talent is not inherited as easily as a last name. I still cannot find a single reason to compare Sofia Coppola to her father. As the saying goes: "I'm not saying you have to beat it... just match it."
Many believe that the minimalist style of 'Los...
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