The Beguiled (2017)
The Beguiled succeeds as an arch comedy that savagely satirises its self-obsessed ladies of leisure.
The Beguiled succeeds as an arch comedy that savagely satirises its self-obsessed ladies of leisure.
Puzzle pieces lie strewn across a dusty table in the suburbs of Perth. They form an incomplete geography: crude continents assembled from matching pieces surrounded by isolate islands, shards without a partner. The camera lingers on this puzzle; we know it will never be completed. There are mere hours til the immolating shockwave of an…