The Beguiled (2017 film) for a biracial character from the novel, she cast white actress Kirsten Dunst. "The Guardian" said Coppola was criticized for engaging in whitewashing, to which the director said she made the changes so as "not [to] brush over such an important topic in a light way," and that "[y]oung girls watch my films and this was not the depiction of an African American character I would want to show them." The Beguiled (2017 film) The Beguiled is a 2017 American drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, based on the novel of the same name (originally published as "A
Justin Anderson (film director) and is set to be his first feature film as a director. In 2016, he shot a short film entitled "The Idyll" based on the short story "Idylle" by Guy de Maupassant. It features French actress Emma de Caunes and Scottish actor Dougray Scott. Justin Anderson (film director) Justin Anderson (born 23 March 1967) is a British film director and screenwriter. Anderson trained as a painter at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where he won the John Ruskin Prize for painting. He then worked as an assistant for Scottish artist Bruce McLean before continuing his studies at