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Oct 11, 2018CaptainHecto rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
From the opening hackneyed shot - a long alley of ancient oaks bedecked with Spanish moss, with the fog machine puffing out wafts of evening mist - we might suspect there's trouble ahead. And there is. But along the way Sophia Coppola makes sure we grasp a shocking fact: that girls and women actually do want men to find them attractive, to single them out, even (gasp!) to make love to them. It is simply delightful to imagine the furious reaction of a feminist audience to these hard truths. But the ladies should grit their teeth and stick it out, for our coven of mutually jealous Southern belles will exact a grim revenge on the serpent who entered their garden. A bemused Colin Farrell stands out as the wounded Yankee who stumbles into this world of women. Nicole Kidman, normally a fatal presence in any movie, is quite good as the stern headmistress who emits none-too-subtle sighs as she cleans our intruder's wounds. Kirsten Dunst is deliberately colourless as the dowdy teacher who also longs for (and briefly gets) her man. Overall, a swing and a miss, but with a bit of fun too.