Sofia Coppola brings a ruthless precision to the artful Southern gothic `The Beguiled`
(LA Times MLB)

Although it unfolds in and around a Virginia boarding school in 1864, a year before the end of the Civil War, Sofia Coppola´s `The Beguiled` has some of the spooky, suggestive magic of a fairy tale. The opening shot could be of an ancient grove at the witching hour, the chatter of cicadas merging...