The Beguiled (2017) | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

Beautiful to gaze at, darkly funny, nerve-wracking, and features excellent actors putting in some of the best work of their careers.

What's baffling is Coppola's decision to strip the piece of all nuance and all complexity.

These little women are the lost specters of Charmed Southern Girlhood, incorporeal Scarlett O'Haras, forever stuck in the endless loop of knitting death shrouds and curtsies inside stiff dresses stained with soldier blood

An interesting and entertaining feminist take on a story that in the past was played as a sexualized fantasy.

For her part, at least Coppola is consistent. She peoples her films ... with characters presumably based on the human beings in whose circles she travels ... and imagines she has offered pronouncements on humanity as a whole.