the beguiled

2019-07-29 16:25

From blog This Time Tomorrow

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the beguiled

I recently rewatched Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled last week… which, as I learned after Googling once the credits started rolling, is actually a remake of the 1971 film with Clint Eastwood, directed by Don Siegel — a Southern Gothic thriller both based on the novel A Painted Devil by Thomas P. Cullinan. If you have’t seen either (or read it), the basic premise surrounds an injured Union soldier who has deserted the Civil War and seeks refuge at an all girls boarding school in rural Mississippi. What ensues next is a combination of sexual tension, deceit, lies, betrayal and eventual bloodshed — and...

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