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Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled gets a stun­ning trailer

08 Feb 2017

Words by Phil W Bayles

Elle Fan­ning, Kirsten Dun­st and Col­in Far­rell star in the director’s racy peri­od remake.

The first trail­er for Sofia Coppola’s remake of Don Siegel’s 1971 film The Beguiled has land­ed, and it’s got us very, very excit­ed. It sees Kirsten Dun­st reunite with her Marie Antoinette and The Vir­gin Sui­cides direc­tor to play a woman who wel­comes an injured Union solid­er into the Con­fed­er­ate all-girls’ board­ing school where she resides.

Where Siegel’s film focused heav­i­ly on the Clint East­wood char­ac­ter (played here by Col­in Far­rell), Cop­po­la looks to have switched the focus to the young women whose close bond is threat­ened by the sud­den pres­ence of a man in their lives. Oth­er than that this update looks pret­ty sim­i­lar to the orig­i­nal, which is no bad thing.

Nicole Kid­man, Angourie Rice and Elle Fan­ning also star, with the lat­ter offer­ing to show Farrell’s wound­ed infantry­man some real South­ern hos­pi­tal­i­ty”. With this trail­er arriv­ing some­what unex­pect­ed­ly, the smart mon­ey is on The Beguiled turn­ing up in com­pe­ti­tion at the Cannes Film Fes­ti­val in May. Give the tan­ta­lis­ing teas­er a watch above and let us know your thoughts @LWLies

The Beguiled is set for release 14 July.

**Update – 19 April, 2017**

A sec­ond trail­er has now been released, and it’s just as good as the first. Watch it below…

Two illustrated book covers depicting a smiling Black man wearing a hat and tie, with a city skyline in the background

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