Focus Features has uploaded the full-length trailer for the thriller remake The Beguiled [BGUIL] from writer-director Sofia Coppola [SCOPP]. The Beguiled will premiere in the Competition Lineup at the Cannes Film Festival before opening in limited release on June 23rd.
The story unfolds during the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school. Its sheltered young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.