Ceticultsot
Beautiful, moving film.
Comwayon
A Disappointing Continuation
Baseshment
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
bestvisions
When a preview begins with "From acclaimed director...", it sets itself up for high expectations. When the next two words are "Sofia Coppola", most people's reaction would rightfully be "huh?".This "acclaimed director" is also the "acclaimed screenwriter" of this cinematic disaster. The screenplay is horrendous. The dialogue is strained and minimal. Characters are not developed. I found myself pitying Kidman and Farrell for having to report to work for such an inept director.
Coppola evidently feels that suspense is built by endless shots of trees and the house in mist. Her overuse of this amateur device made me think that at any moment a commercial voice-over would declare "Virginia is For Lovers". And in true Coppola cliche fashion, so many scenes are so weakly illuminated. Straining to see whatever was happening, I actually screamed at my TV, "light the damn scene!".Other than skipping this movie, my advice to Coppola is to get out of the business. You're a disgrace to screenwriters and directors who would have done far better than you with this material. And stop believing your own hype.
BoomerDT
Don Siegel's 1971 version was a taut gothic thriller, a tale of repressed sexuality as Clint Eastwood portrays a wounded Union soldier found behind enemy lines next to the property of girls boarding school. The presence of a virile man stirs the sexual hormones of the principals at the academy which included a middle-aged headmistress...whose sexual experience consisted of an incestuous affair with her brother, a 20ish virginal teacher, a slave, a sexy teenager and a 12 year old girl just hitting puberty. Clint's character quickly realizes how his sexuality is easily able to manipulate the women into what could be a very soft life while he is waiting to finish for the war to finish. Sophia Coppola's version has none of the sexual tension of the original with no real background or development of the characters. In the interest of PC the slave character is left out, as was the incest flashback. Colin Ferrell as the soldier isn't a fascinating presence as was Eastwood was and doesn't project the potential terror that Clint did. If you find this plot premise interesting do yourself a favor and view the original.
851222
Greetings from Lithuania."The Beguiled" (2017) is a good movie. It was very solidly directed, nicely written drama that kinda surprised me in a second half of the movie. I haven't saw the original, nor read the book, nor i intend to it. I liked this movie.Overall, craftsmanship of this movie was good. Acting was pretty good, although nothing that special. Set design was solid and like i said i liked the kinda unexpected turn the story made. This is a slow movie which won't please anyone that is for sure, but its a good movie - that i'm sure either.
jerrysanders
Just awful compared to 1971. All this does is give crews and actors a pay check ... I hated it. Fast forwarded most of the time. Just a bad remake. Bad.
