2017's «The Beguiled» was a
change of pace from Coppola's usual routine — a remake of a 1971 gothic Civil War
drama that starred Clint Eastwood as an injured Yankee soldier held captive by
teachers and students at a Southern
school for girls.
When high
school drama teacher Fran Heller holds rehearsals for Aristophanes» Lysistrata — in which the women of Greece stop having sex in an effort to end the Peloponnesian War — a mysterious
change overcomes the town's female population.