For the radical and disturbing side. Luca Guadagnino revisits the horror classic of Dario Argento, to make it a book of voluptuous and disgusting images.
The generic. Suspiria is the remake of a famous Italian fantasy film of the 1970s, by Dario Argento, a horror sabbat that traumatized a whole generation and became a cult favorite among thrill-seekers. Luca Guadagnino, author of the recent and acclaimed Call Me by Your Name , today offers this
elegant and poisonous rereading, interpreted by the arty icon Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, heroine of the saga Fifty Shades of Gray and Chloë Grace Moretz.
Genre. Aesthetic horror.
The story. In the 1970s, in Berlin, Suzie Bannion, a young American, joined the dance troupe of Mrs. Blanc. Quickly, the rehearsals will be disturbed by strange supernatural phenomena ...
The duration. 2:32
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Luca Guadagnino composes here an impressive book of images, strange, disturbing, in turn voluptuous and disgusting. Far from the surge of baroque and flamboyant colors of the original film, he prefers to draw inspiration from the pale aesthetic of Rainer Werner Fassbinder to create a pure film of atmosphere. The hypnotic compositions of the musician Thom Yorke (leader of Radiohead), who signs the soundtrack, contribute to the spell.
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Filmmaker of the shocking image and pure sensation, Guadagnino sometimes seems to lose himself in the aesthetic vertigo that he intends to provoke in his viewer. Above all, he adds to his argument by using the Berlin context of the plot to sketch a confused reflection on the guilt of the German people in the face of Nazi crimes and, more surprisingly, on the supposed links between witchcraft and terrorism.