Y’all like the Deep South of ‘Merica?

OK, I’ll stop.

The Beguiled looks like it’s going to be a goodie, with Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman on board, so let’s see what the Daily Beast has to say:

Set in the waning days of the Confederacy, The Beguiled takes place at the Martha Farnsworth Seminary, an all-girls school where only five students remain—including Elle Fanning, as well as instructors Kirsten Dunst and Nicole Kidman. It begins almost like a Tennessee Williams play, with Kidman’s Miss Martha attempting to reclaim her glory days as a Southern belle while tending to the wounds of Colin Farrell’s John McBurney, a Union soldier who’s deserted the battlefields of Virginia. The sudden presence of a man whips women young and older into a sexual frenzy, igniting a fire in each of them that they’ve long kept doused as women of high society.

You had me at sexual frenzy.

The movie is actually a remake of 1971’s Civil War-era film of the same name starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page, and it’s here that director Sofia Coppola is catching a little heat:

Coppola has drawn ire for removing a black woman from her film, a slave named Hallie who tended to Eastwood’s wounds in the 1971 version.

…Coppola said: “I didn’t want to brush over such an important topic in a light way. Young girls watch my films and this was not the depiction of an African-American character I would want to show them. I was clear about my decision—because I want to be respectful to that history.”

Make of that what you will, but if you like Colin and Nicole this could be right up your alley.

[source:dailybeast]