Give your soul to the dance.
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
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- TZXJMon TMDB · Mar 20239/10
Inspite of Argento's dissatisfaction, Suspiria (by Guadagnino) is an evocative reinterpretation. Maybe it is the original creator's prerogative to criticize the execution when remaking classic cinema, peronally, I find the criticism also takes itself too seriously. Reimagination through the milieu (post-war Germany) affords a shift in depth and focus without complicating the narrative with self-referentiality. Although details have been torn apart for lack of relevance, to my mind, if the director chose any setting, naivety or irrelevance would still be the low-hanging fruit of critics. The film simply doesn't strive to show a connection, and contextual elements are illustrated with proportionate gravity and relevance. If one has to draw comparisons, there are diametric opposites in many ways. Mainly through through cinematography. No doubt Argento's inspired so much that followed and this ultimately binds it to the genre it inspired. Four decades later, we have a histrionic period drama fused with a supernatural fable forming (unwanted) homage to Argento's suspense, as cinema for today's audience. I loved the original score by Goblin and others they did for Argento and Romero. The
Read the whole review on TMDB - Stephen Campbellon TMDB · Jun 20194/10
**_Politically juvenile, with a troubling approach to the Feminine, but it's certainly convinced of its own profundity_** > _It did not excite me, it betrayed the spirit of the original film: there is no fear, there is no music. The film has not satisfied me so much._ - Dario Argento's assessment of _Suspiria_; _Un Giorno da Pecora_ (January 18, 2019) Released in 1977, Dario Argento's giallo classic _Suspiria_ (the first part of his _Tre madri_ [_Three Mothers_] trilogy) has a plot you could fit on a stamp – a young American dancer goes to the famous Tanz Dance Academy in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, only to find it's a front for a witches coven. That's it, and as the film barely leaves the confines of the Academy, there is no contextualising of the plot against any kind of socio-political background. By no means is it a good film, with terrible acting, a dire script, and laughable effects, but it's immensely enjoyable, partly because it's genuinely creepy in places, but mainly because it doesn't take itself too seriously; the filmmakers know it's nothing more than a surreal, gaudy, style-over-substance, shock-for-shock's sake, Grand Guignol head-trip, and they lean into that ide
Read the whole review on TMDB - Feli~on TMDB · Jan 20199/10
Luca's "Suspiria" brought me no words. The horror in this movie is not like anything else I've ever heard or seen. The sheer film in Luca's "Suspiria" is not like anything that is made by major movie studios such as Columbia, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Disney, and the like. Director Luca Guadagnino transitioning from the LGBTQ+ drama adaptation "Call Me By Your Name" — transitioning to the avant-garde, psychological study in his version of famed director Dario Argento's 1977 "Suspiria". Horror movies today don't scare me. Horror movies of the 21st century seem to be involved in so much gratuitous gore, typical plotlines, a roulette set of actors playing quasi-characterization, varying degress of quality. Luca's "Suspiria" — a horror movie from 2018 — did not scare me. Luca's "Suspiria" unnerved me. Luca's "Suspiria" built slowly in tension, but also captivated me with raw interest — "Suspiria" dealt its final blow, finishing with a nightmarish sixth act and an epilogue. Argento's "Suspiria" is a movie out of time in its own way. Argento's "Suspiria", a film released in 1977, looks fresh and modern — Argento's "Suspiria"'s fixation on primary neon colors and gore — Argento's "Susp
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Cast
- Dakota JohnsonSusie
- Tilda SwintonMadame Blanc / Dr. Klemperer / Helena Markos
- Mia GothSara
- Angela WinklerMiss Tanner
- Ingrid CavenMiss Vendegast
- Chloë Grace MoretzPatricia
- Elena FokinaOlga
- Sylvie TestudMiss Griffith
- Renée SoutendijkMiss Huller
- Christine LeboutteMiss Balfour
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- Luca GuadagninoDirector
- David KajganichScreenplay
- Sayombhu MukdeepromDirector of Photography
- Thom YorkeOriginal Music Composer
- Walter FasanoEditor
- Luca GuadagninoProducer
- William SherakProducer
- Silvia Venturini FendiProducer
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