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The Beguiled trailer: Sofia Coppola directs the remake

Focus Features have debuted the full The Beguiled trailer ahead of the film’s big debut at the Cannes Film Festival in France this coming month.

The Beguiled trailer

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The film, directed by celebrated filmmaker Sofia Coppola, is based on the 1966 novel by Thomas Cullinan A Painted Devil, and revolves around a story set at a Southern girls’ boarding school during the American Civil War. The school’s sheltered young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.

Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning lead out the cast of the forthcoming atmospheric thriller, which is also scripted by the hugely talented Coppola. the film has been selected for the official competition of the Cannes Film Festival, where it will compete for the prestigious Palme d’Or, the award won in 2016 by Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake.

Here’s the original book’s synopsis:

Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the height of the Civil War and brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies. Almost immediately he sets about beguiling the three women and five teenage girls stranded in this outpost of Southern gentility, eliciting their love and fear, pity and infatuation, and pitting them against one another in a bid for his freedom. But as the women are revealed for what they really are, a sense of ominous foreboding closes in on the soldier, and the question becomes: Just who is the beguiled?

You can check out The Beguiled trailer below. We’ll have a full review of the film after it premieres in the Cannes festival, which runs from May 16th – 28th.

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