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“It was a big leap for her, but I knew she could do it,” Coppola said.

For Battat, who worked with Coppola on A Very Murray Christmas, The Bling Ring, and Somewhere, The Beguiled was the costume designer’s first period film project. In the case of The Beguiled, Battat’s pastel-hued collection of day dresses in muted plaids, stripes, and calico prints-most of which were handmade, along with custom corsets-transport the audience to a sheltered, feminine enclave that is suddenly upended by the appearance of a wounded Union soldier (Colin Farrell). The film’s visual riches are all the more impressive given its modest $10.5 million dollar budget and tight 26-day production schedule.Īs with most of Coppola’s films, the characters’ costumery was an early and central consideration. The film, which is a remake of a 1971 Clint Eastwood classic, takes place at an isolated southern girls’ boarding school- Nicole Kidman plays the headmistress Miss Martha, Kirsten Dunst is Edwina, a teacher, while Elle Fanning is a brooding, rebellious teenager, Alicia-and examines the rarely-depicted female experience during wartime.Ĭoppola’s version is a lush and gorgeously-wrought thriller that’s already received major accolades, including the Best Director Prize when it debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May. For her new film, The Beguiled, a Southern Gothic set during the Civil War, Sofia Coppola reunited with costume designer Stacey Battat, a longtime collaborator (and close friend), to create the wardrobe for her mostly female cast.

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