The sisters in The Virgin Suicides, the opulent detachment of Marie Anionette, and the cosseted delusion of the girls in The Bling Ring; all face implosion when the outside world pricks their bubble. So it is in The Beguiled; a darkly comic, yet restrained chamber piece where the teachers and few remaining students of a girls’ school in Civil War Virginia allow an injured soldier to convalesce in their seminary.