Suspiria (2018)
A young ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of increasingly grisly murders.
November1993, Southwark, London, England, UK
21 May 1957, The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
16 April 1977, Bahr al Ghazal, Sudan
May 23, 2000 in Germany
June 6, 1977 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
10 February 1997, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
5 November 1960, London, England, UK
August 3, 1938 in Saarbrücken, Germany
December 12, 2018
A dance about the obscure in the human being. An introspection to our psyche. A domination that has excerciced the power on the woman's body in the past and in the present. [Full review in Spanish]
December 12, 2018
Languorous and muted, with muddled plot lines and a very open approach to the coven of horror that the original film kept a little more secretive.
December 10, 2018
Some sequences offer beautiful art while others are ponderous and slow
December 15, 2018
packs the narrative with an overt political history that never really coheres with the dramatic narrative and its distinctly feminine horrors
November 01, 2018
Guadagnino is so intent on fulfilling his vision he doesn't seem to have room for any perspective besides his own, leaving the women in his narrative underserved in spite of his incredibly skilled efforts.
December 17, 2018
It is an argument that confuses stylishness with subtext and empty signifiers with intellectual heft.
November 01, 2018
"Suspiria" casts quite a spell.
November 02, 2018
The Argento is a marvel of style-as-subject; Guadagnino subjects audiences to second-hand shocks.
December 14, 2018
I was promised a thrilling horror about a coven of witches but ended up with what seemed like a thesis on German culture in the late 1970s.
November 02, 2018
The filmmakers' insatiable curiosity and grandiose sense of spectacle keeps Suspiria from becoming half as annoying as it should be.
November 01, 2018
"It's a mess, isn't it?" Susie says at one point, and she's certainly got that right.
November 02, 2018
Ambitious, grandiose, occasionally compelling but far more often irritating and laughable.
