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Bare Shoulders Are Dinner Party Conversation in The Beguiled Clip

Bare Shoulders Are Dinner Party Conversation in The Beguiled Clip

The women of the boarding school vie for the attention of a wounded Yankee soldier in this exclusive clip.

This spring Sofia Coppola became the second woman to win the directing prize at the Cannes Film Festival in its 77-year history for her reboot of the 1971 Southern gothic Civil War-era thriller The Beguiled, based on Thomas Cullinan's novel. She's pared her film about women at a boarding school for girls who take in a wounded Yankee soldier down to a crisp 93 minutes, in which the women vie for and repudiate his attention. Nicole Kidman plays the head of the school, Kirsten Dunst a teacher, and Elle Fanning one of the more precocious students, and all fall for the soldier's (Colin Farrell) charms.

In this exclusive clip, the women politely but pointedly quip at one another when Dunst's Miss Edwina arrives at dinner with her shoulders bared, ostensibly to appeal to the soldier who's joined them for the first time at their evening meal.

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Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP of Editorial and Special Projects at equalpride. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP of Editorial and Special Projects at equalpride. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
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