Do you like independent movies?

Well here it's "The beguiled" and my point of view
OHHHH!! 2017 you were full of reboots, remakes, sequels, prequels and superhero movies. This wave of commercial cinema almost makes us forget that we have an independent cinema that brings freshness and excitement to any movie fan. With films that range from Science Fiction to documentary dramas, last year has left a great legacy of films worth mentioning that perhaps have gone unnoticed like "The Beguiled"

A few months ago, when the media reported that Sofia Coppola was directing a remake of Don Siegel's film 'The Beguiled' a lot of critics received the news with some hostility. As far I know, few remakes of great classics manage to overcome the shadow of their original work, And indeed, the film released at the Cannes Festival wasn’t the exception to the rule. However, although Coppola has lost the pulse with the feature film that Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page starred in 1971, it is very interesting to analyze Coppola's reasons for choosing that film in particular.

Without going into details that make spoilers to the you who might not see the film of 1971, I will comment that the movie took place in a conservative Virginia at the time of the Civil War. Near a mansion where Geraldine Page and their respective daughters live, A soldier (from the opposite side) appears on the verge of death. Honoring their pious Christian beliefs, the southern charities heal the enemy and welcome him home until he recovers. From that moment the convalescent military will become the hobby of all of them. The conflict erupts with the arrival of the stranger; his presence encourages them to participate in a game of seductions based on a race to be the first to hunt the fighter

Now coming back to the 2017 movie
Inspired in a novel by Thomas Cullinan. Set during the American Civil War (1861-1865)John Mc Burney, a badly wounded Yankee soldier who is rescued by a young girl from a school of young girls from the South, His presence in the institution will awaken sexual tensions and dangerous rivalries that will encourage breaking all taboos in an unexpected turn of events ...

I will say that Sofia Coppola's cinema brings to light the hidden nature of people when they are trapped in a place with which they do not empathize enough to consider it their home.

From the hotels of the movie "Somewhere"(2010)

and Lost in Translation (2003)

the characters of Coppola establish a non-affective link with the space that surrounds them.
So from what i see after her debut in
"The virgins suicides" (1999)

and Marie Antoniette (2006)

becomes the third film of Sofia Coppola that explores the disagreements of a community locked up specifically… a group of women.

By now I’m not surprised that the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola has copied Siegel's dialogues word by word. As i said, although the new version is inferior to the first, the obsessions of Coppola adhere perfectly to the plot of that film shot four decades ago. There are only two issues that I see differentiate one film from the other. On the one hand, she has eluded the significant racial background that was seen in Don Siegel's film by discarding the character of the black maid who exploded in matriarchy. And, on the other, Coppola added a lot of footage of scenes that reflect the cold and unhealthy atmosphere of that place.

Here's the trailer

MY RATING 3/5