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Sofia Coppola lets women propel the story in her remake of ‘Beguiled’

When Sofia Coppola said early in her career that she would never do a remake, she wasn’t only lobbing an implied criticism at Hollywood’s play-it-safe obsession with reboots. (This summer alone, more than a dozen franchise remakes and sequels will have hit screens, for better or worse.)

Coppola, who in May became only the second woman in the Cannes Film Festival’s 70-year history to win the best director award — for a remake of “The Beguiled” — was making a point about the sanctity of an artist’s work. It’s an opinion befitting the daughter of one of this country’s most famous auteurs.

Film is everywhere in Coppola’s family tree. Her father is six-time Academy Award winner Francis Ford Coppola of

Andrew Durham / CPi Syndication Sofia Coppola is screenwriter and director of “The Beguiled,” a remake of a 1971 film set in a girls’ boarding school.

Ben Rothstein / Focus Features Coppola with cast members including Kirsten Dunst and Nicole Kidman.