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Nov 07, 2017lukasevansherman rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I didn't know until Sofia Coppola's 2017 version of the film that "The Beguiled" was a book. It was made not very famous by the 1971 film that starred Clint Eastwood and was directed by Don Siegel ("Dirty Harry"). It was one of Eastwood's weirdest films. A wounded Yankee soldier ends up in an obscure all girls school and is nursed to help, while also setting their delicate feminine world aflutter. Its ideas about gender are a little outdated, as is its decaying Southern mansion Gothic sensibility. It is somewhat interesting in that it's told from multiple perspectives. Coppola, who can hardly be accused of being "woke" or "interested in non-white people," was criticized for leaving out the slave character. I have no idea if author Thomas Cullinan wrote anything else.