With The Swoony Pleasures Of 'The Beguiled,' Sofia Coppola Shows Us Something New
In her previous work, director Sofia Coppola looked out from inside the bubble that wealth and privilege create. Her latest film grapples with a different — but related — form of isolation.
Until , Sofia Coppola had exclusively made movies about rich people. But that's not the same thing as exclusively making movies rich people. Drawing on her own upbringing in the cradle of Hollywood, Coppola spent the last two decades turning out formally radical, narratively slight riffs on what life is like inside the cocoon of wealth and privilege. That core has remained constant, whether her subject matter was Marie Antoinette or the gang of pampered L.A. kids who stole from celebrities because they felt
