Luca Guadagnino tips into perverse horror, reimagining Dario Argento’s 1977 occult classic Suspiria in “six acts and an epilogue set in a divided Berlin.” A young American ballet dancer (Dakota Johnson) uncovers nightmarish evil at a prestigious dance academy. Tilda Swinton plays Madame Blanc, the troupe’s fierce artistic director, and Chloë Grace Moretz is a dancer driven mad by radicals. This dark and hideous vision, in which ecstatic dance and debauched violence reveal the brutality of human nature, is a radically feminine witch tale. Set to a mesmerizing score by Thom Yorke of Radiohead. 2018, DCP, 152 min.
This Walker Dialogue and Retrospective program is made possible by generous support from Anita Kunin and the Kunin family.
Big-Canvas Dreamer: The Cinematic Vision of Luca Guadagnino
"Each gesture and touch, each wisp of summer breeze, made to feel momentous, indelible, life-changing; the beauty of it all rendered more intense by the fact that we know it will not last." Scott Foundas surveys the verdant cinema of Luca Guadagnino in advance of his on-stage dialogue with the filmmaker on February 1.
