Plane movie! This was a really quick and easy watch, a bunch of medium-to-big-name actors you're familiar with remaking an old Clint Eastwood movie under the direction of Sofia Coppola. I like Coppola, and she's really grown on me through the years - owe Lost in Translation a rewatch and need to finally get around to seeing that much-maligned Marie Antoinette movie.
Anyway, this is good. Solid stuff. Late in the Civil War, Union soldier Colin Farrell is injured and left to die in the woods outside a schoolhouse for ladies in Virginia. Nicole Kidman runs the joint, and immediately sees Farrell as a threat and treats him like a prisoner. Second-in-command Kirsten Dunst has all sorts of compassion for the guy, perhaps feeling a little trapped herself. And Elle Fanning, the oldest of the young girls, she's a femme fatale of sorts, happily playing jailbait, openly lusting for Farrell when she's alone with him and then telling the other women he's forcing himself on her. Four younger girls round out the house, and a few of them have some significant moments, but this is really mostly a story about the four adults in the room, so to speak, collectively unwilling or unable to just keep it in their pants.
Also, props to the production design here, which between the costumes and the set and the sound (mostly the sound) really conveyed what a hot, dank, sweltering summer it was in them Virginia country woods.
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