The Beguiled (1971)
Directed by Don Siegel
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.
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Much like Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, or Chan-wook Park’s The Handmaiden, every small detail feels thoroughly.
(Incidentally, I also noticed a reference to Don Siegel’s 1971 movie “The Beguiled,” in which – as in its 2017 remake by Sofia Coppola – mushrooms become weapons in the war between the sexes.)
Shades of last year’s remake of The Beguiled abound in these sections; suffice to say, you’ll think twice the next time you eat mushrooms.
Al igual que en Happy Together (1997), de Wong Kar-wai, la enfermedad y el cuidado son una herramienta de coerción, mientras que las setas, el más fálico de los alimentos, regresan de ambas versiones de El seductor ( The Beguiled , 1971, 2017) como un veneno y un signo de la toxicidad masculina.
If you prefer screenplay structure, this thread unravels down the stretch, mushrooming into an implausible finish that was better executed months ago by Sofia Coppola in “The Beguiled” (2017).
Acting convincingly, Collin Farrell and Nicole Kidman pair up once again after having collaborated recently in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled.
Nicole Kidman, an Academy Award-winning actor who just pulled off one of the top performances of her lifetime in Big Little Lies, finds herself disrespectfully billed under Farrell for the second time this year (the first was The Beguiled) as his wife Anna, whose support of her husband starts to falter when the truth comes out.
(Coincidentally, this is the second film this year where she and Farrell have worked together – the other being The Beguiled .)
And now here’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer, which brings together Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman (only a few months after she chopped his leg off in The Beguiled) as a married couple.
Kidman once again brings her expert bearing that finds the normalcy in outrageous situations (see Eyes Wide Shut, Dogville, Bewitched, and The Beguiled for examples).
…’s “The Beguiled,” a Civil War drama that made plausible accommodation for Farrell’s Irish accent.
In terms of how it treats female power, 2018's Suspiria has more in common with 1971's The Beguiled , whose director Don Siegel said was about "the basic desire of women to castrate men."
Coppola’s Civil War remake The Beguiled was half-heartedly misandrist, so Gerwig promotes the idea that women can have it all — including a sexy, exotic husband (played by Louis Garrel, hipster cinema’s default dreamboat).
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