The Beguiled

(2017)

★ 5.9 IMDb · 2,270 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2017

Runtime: 93 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: София Коппола

Cast: Колин Фаррелл, Николь Кидман, Кирстен Данст, Эль Фаннинг, Oona Laurence, Энгаури Райс, Эддисон Рики, Emma Howard, Уэйн Пер, Matt Story

Plot

During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, 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.

Three years into the American Civil War, in 1864, the dilapidated mansion of Miss Martha Farnsworth's Seminary for Young Ladies is still running, occupied by the matriarch, a teacher, and five students in Spanish-moss-draped Virginia. However, when a young student stumbles upon Corporal John McBurney, a wounded Union deserter on the verge of death, the already frail balance of things will be disrupted, as the hesitant headmistress decides to take him in to heal from his injury. Little by little, as the unwelcome guest arouses an uneasy sexual excitation among the women of the secluded boarding school, it is not before long that they will find themselves competing for the alluring man's favour. Undoubtedly, this handsome devil is a manipulator; nevertheless, will the ladies stay forever beguiled by his charm?