Film
Suspiria (18)
Dir. Luca Guadagnino, Italy/US, 2018, 153 mins.
Cast. Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, Mia Goth.
Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) pays homage to Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic with this delicious, dark - and feminist - reimagining. Unfolding in Berlin in the 70s, it finds Susie Bannion, a young American dancer, auditioning for a place in a prestigious school run by a group of women who may in fact be witches. Students are disappearing, and it’s apparent that some kind of ancient violence lives in the school’s walls - is Susie being groomed as a tool for the occult? With an eerily brilliant score by Thom Yorke and an earthy, muted colour palette of greens and pale pinks, this is a spellbinding look at corruption, innocence and female power that expertly blends filmmaking, dance and performance.
Cast. Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, Mia Goth.
Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) pays homage to Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic with this delicious, dark - and feminist - reimagining. Unfolding in Berlin in the 70s, it finds Susie Bannion, a young American dancer, auditioning for a place in a prestigious school run by a group of women who may in fact be witches. Students are disappearing, and it’s apparent that some kind of ancient violence lives in the school’s walls - is Susie being groomed as a tool for the occult? With an eerily brilliant score by Thom Yorke and an earthy, muted colour palette of greens and pale pinks, this is a spellbinding look at corruption, innocence and female power that expertly blends filmmaking, dance and performance.
