I have always been very anticipated to see Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled ever since she successfully won the 2017 best director of Cannes. Note that I'm not a fan of all of her movies, i.e. Somewhere, but I'm a big fan of Lost In Translation and I also quite like The Virgin Suicides.
This movie tells about the life of a group of girls, living in a boarding girl's school during the war. What's most interesting about the movie itself is how Coppola succeeded to create a wide picture for the viewers to imagine what it was like to be one of the girls trapped under the same roof during the colonial times. The cinematography and the close up shot angles are perfect to describe the intensity of each scene, the picturesque view, accompanied with the absence of background music which frankly worked brilliantly, in terms of creating a more vivid and uplifting moments.
Following the movie stars a corporal from an army, McBurney (Collin Farrel), the only guy amongst other girls stuck in the house. Saying so, Coppola tried to plant the viewers to picture the feeling of being each of the characters. The first half of the movie mostly highlights on the girls' routine until when they accept the corporal to be a part of the house as well in their everyday lives in quite a slow pace.
The movie started to get satirically funny as the girls get secretly very flirtatious towards the corporal. During this second half is where it got more ardent as the truth came at hand, where the corporal's favourite girl (Kirsten Dunst) also felt in a way 'stuck' in the world they both didn't want to be a part of, making both of them closely connected with each other romantically. From then on, the other girls started to feel envy with the other, bearing in mind that the corporal is also a philander and initially had something going on with one of the girls (Elle Fanning).
I cannot say that I loved every second of it and understands how people may say it as 'boring'. I also dislike the failure of the actresses to send such message, hence sometimes can be seen as quite pretentious. In all, Coppola's remake of 1971 Clint Eastwood classic remains as original, I mean not of the plot originality, but her way of telling a story in retrospect. The conflicts brought in this movie she directed seem somewhat very possible from a mix between anger, laughter, sorrow, and envy having to come from that background (the girls' psychologically). It's certainly worth the watch and she can't possibly win a 'Cannes' with this one.
This movie tells about the life of a group of girls, living in a boarding girl's school during the war. What's most interesting about the movie itself is how Coppola succeeded to create a wide picture for the viewers to imagine what it was like to be one of the girls trapped under the same roof during the colonial times. The cinematography and the close up shot angles are perfect to describe the intensity of each scene, the picturesque view, accompanied with the absence of background music which frankly worked brilliantly, in terms of creating a more vivid and uplifting moments.
Following the movie stars a corporal from an army, McBurney (Collin Farrel), the only guy amongst other girls stuck in the house. Saying so, Coppola tried to plant the viewers to picture the feeling of being each of the characters. The first half of the movie mostly highlights on the girls' routine until when they accept the corporal to be a part of the house as well in their everyday lives in quite a slow pace.
The movie started to get satirically funny as the girls get secretly very flirtatious towards the corporal. During this second half is where it got more ardent as the truth came at hand, where the corporal's favourite girl (Kirsten Dunst) also felt in a way 'stuck' in the world they both didn't want to be a part of, making both of them closely connected with each other romantically. From then on, the other girls started to feel envy with the other, bearing in mind that the corporal is also a philander and initially had something going on with one of the girls (Elle Fanning).
I cannot say that I loved every second of it and understands how people may say it as 'boring'. I also dislike the failure of the actresses to send such message, hence sometimes can be seen as quite pretentious. In all, Coppola's remake of 1971 Clint Eastwood classic remains as original, I mean not of the plot originality, but her way of telling a story in retrospect. The conflicts brought in this movie she directed seem somewhat very possible from a mix between anger, laughter, sorrow, and envy having to come from that background (the girls' psychologically). It's certainly worth the watch and she can't possibly win a 'Cannes' with this one.
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