INNOCENT UNTIL BETRAYED.

In 1864, a wounded Union soldier (Colin Farrell) recovers in a school for young women housed in a former Virginia plantation, but his presence soon causes an uproar.

Sofia Coppola’s take on the novel and the 1971 Clint Eastwood adaptation makes a few changes, such as toning down the ”bluebelly’s” behavior among the girls at the school. Attitudes change over the years, but if you remove everything that’s perceived as provocative in this story, you end up with a film that feels a little flat.

Still, Farrell is great and the sumptuous Louisiana cinematography is an added bonus.

2017-U.S. 94 min. Color. Written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Novel: Thomas P. Cullinan. Cinematography: Philippe Le Sourd. Cast: Colin Farrell (John McBurney), Nicole Kidman (Martha Farnsworth), Kirsten Dunst (Edwina Morrow), Elle Fanning, Oona Laurence, Angourie Rice. 

Trivia: Co-produced by Coppola. Interior scenes were filmed in Jennifer Coolidge’s house in New Orleans.

Cannes: Best Director.