<P> The Beguiled holds a 92% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 13 reviews, with a weighted average of 7 / 10 . </P> <P> The film received major recognition in France, and was proposed by Pierre Rissient to the Cannes Film Festival, and while agreed to by Eastwood and Siegel, the producers declined . It would be widely screened in France later and is considered one of Eastwood's finest works by the French . The film was poorly marketed and in the end grossed less than $1 million, earning less than a fourth of what Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song did at the same time and falling to below 50 in the charts within two weeks of release . </P> <P> Made right before Dirty Harry, this was a bold early attempt by Eastwood to play against type . It was not a hit, likely due to uncertainty on Universal's part concerning how to market it, eventually leading them to advertise the film as a hothouse melodrama: "One man...seven women...in a strange house!" "His love...or his life ..." According to Eastwood and Jennings Lang, the film, aside from being poorly publicized, flopped due to Eastwood's being "emasculated in the film". The film's poster, for example, shows him with a gun, suggesting an action movie, but only the action consists of a few seconds of flashback to Eastwood's character in battle before being wounded . </P> <P> Sofia Coppola wrote and directed a film based on the same source material with Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning . It had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2017 . The film was released on June 23, 2017, by Focus Features . </P>

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