Thomas Cullinan

The basis for the major motion picture directed by Sofia Coppola--named best director at the Cannes Film Festival for The Beguiled--and starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning "[A] mad gothic tale . . . The reader is mesmerized with horror by what goes on in that forgotten school for young ladies." --Stephen King, in Danse Macabre Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the height of the Civil War and brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies. Almost immediately he sets about beguiling the three women and five teenage girls stranded in this outpost of Southern gentility, eliciting their love and fear, pity and infatuation, and pitting them against one another in a bid for his freedom. But as the women are revealed for what they really are, a sense of ominous foreboding closes in on the soldier, and the question becomes: Just who is the beguiled?

A Novel

The Beguiled

The Bedeviled

The basis for the major motion picture directed by Sofia Coppola—named best director at the Cannes Film Festival for The Beguiled—and starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning “[A] mad gothic tale . . . The reader is mesmerized with horror by what goes on in that forgotten school for young ladies.” —Stephen King, in Danse Macabre Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the height of the Civil War and brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies. Almost immediately he sets about beguiling the three women and five teenage girls stranded in this outpost of Southern gentility, eliciting their love and fear, pity and infatuation, and pitting them against one another in a bid for his freedom. But as the women are revealed for what they really are, a sense of ominous foreboding closes in on the soldier, and the question becomes: Just who is the beguiled?

The Beguiled (Movie Tie-In)

The Besieged

En pleine guerre de Sécession, un caporal nordiste échappe à un brasier et trouve refuge dans un pensionnat pour jeunes filles confédéré. Mais l'intrusion soudaine d'un mâle vient perturber la vie des huit femmes qu'abrite encore l'institution, huit recluses pétries de valeurs puritaines et de pulsions refoulées. Objet de tous les fantasmes, le soldat va s'employer à.. les incarner avec un art consommé de la manipulation, jusqu'à une nuit où tout bascule. Huis clos psychologique au suspense diabolique, ce roman sulfureux a été porté à l'écran une première fois en 1971 par Don Siegel, avec Clint Eastwood dans le rôle principal, puis par Sofia Coppola en 2017.

Les proies

THE STORY: As described in Fine Arts magazine: In 1875, ten years after Lincoln's tragic death, his widow was declared insane and upon petition of her son, Robert, was confined in the Bethlehem Place Sanitarium, Batavia, Illinois, for about a year

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