Coppola has inverted the old order of sexploitation and Farrell has been reduced to a sex object. He just looks like a very happy one.

The Beguiled is well worth seeing but it's also just as worthy of being taken to task for its shortcomings.

The Beguiled has a strong story to tell. Unfortunately, it's too wrapped up in Sofia Coppola's naïveté and hubris to be anything more.

On the evidence of Marie Antoinette and this film, Sofia Coppola clearly needs to be collaborating with writers if she chooses to work with material set in the past or set in spaces and places unfamiliar to her.