SUSPIRIA (18)

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Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria pays homage to Dario Argento’s cult giallo film, retaining its key plot points; but this is no ‘remake’. Instead Guadagnino directs a delirious, feminist supernatural horror that unfolds in Berlin in 1977, where American Susie Bannion (Dakota Johnson) is auditioning for a prestigious international dance school where a vacancy for a boarding student has unexpectedly become available. The strange mistresses who run the all-female school are captivated by her untutored passion for dance, in particular, the precise Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton). Thom Yorke contributes a terrific, eerily dramatic, disquieting score, enveloping the darkness swirling at the centre of the dance company and threatening to engulf the artistic director, its young dancers, and a grieving psychotherapist caught in the intrigue.

Italy/USA, 2018, 152 mins

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