Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. —Henry Fielding

25 January 2024

The Beguiled (1971)


The original version of The Beguiled, directed by Don Siegel, is deeply, delightfully perverse and much, much queerer than the Sofia Coppola remake, which I liked a lot. But it’s unfortunate that she tamed the rough edges of this strange story. This film insists upon the weirdness. (Coppola apparently thought that this Don Siegel movie was too invested in sensational topics like incest and lesbianism? Sign me up! That’s what made this so fun.)

Also, y'all, Clint Eastwood in the 1970s was a fox.

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