Suspiria * *
Tell me again that this is the same director who gave us A Bigger Splash and Call Me By Your Name, because I'm struggling to believe it.
Talk about taking a wrong turn! This is as bad as they are good.
There were about twenty people in the cinema when this film started, there were three of us left when it finished. At one stage I was more amused by the exit door banging than whatever was on the screen.
This is a stinker. It's a "remake" of the original 1977 film. Why he wanted to do it is beyond me. You'd think a good film maker like Luca Guadagino would recognise and respect a perfectly fine film and want to respectfully leave it be.
Basically the story is the same. Set in the 1970's A dance student goes to Germany to join a prestigious all female dance troop but soon discovers things are a bit weird. However, rather than being frighted by it all she becomes drawn into the madness. The dance troop are actually a bunch of witches.
The film waffles on about women not having a voice and other pasted on "philosophical" arguments trying to justify it's existence, but it's completely unpersuasive. With it's heavy handed symbolism, everything comes across as naive, or pretentious. It also makes references to the war (of course) and to terrorist activities that were happening in the seventies.
I don't know if the end was supposed to be funny or frightening or a tribute to 70's gore movies, (like the original Suspiria) but it's some kind of ridiculous bacchanal orgy of violence that had me giggling mostly.
Luca Guadagino is great at making a different type of film. He should leave this whacko stuff to Aronofsky he does it so much better.
Talk about taking a wrong turn! This is as bad as they are good.
There were about twenty people in the cinema when this film started, there were three of us left when it finished. At one stage I was more amused by the exit door banging than whatever was on the screen.
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| A heart rending scene from Suspiria |
Basically the story is the same. Set in the 1970's A dance student goes to Germany to join a prestigious all female dance troop but soon discovers things are a bit weird. However, rather than being frighted by it all she becomes drawn into the madness. The dance troop are actually a bunch of witches.
The film waffles on about women not having a voice and other pasted on "philosophical" arguments trying to justify it's existence, but it's completely unpersuasive. With it's heavy handed symbolism, everything comes across as naive, or pretentious. It also makes references to the war (of course) and to terrorist activities that were happening in the seventies.
I don't know if the end was supposed to be funny or frightening or a tribute to 70's gore movies, (like the original Suspiria) but it's some kind of ridiculous bacchanal orgy of violence that had me giggling mostly.
Luca Guadagino is great at making a different type of film. He should leave this whacko stuff to Aronofsky he does it so much better.
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