Suspiria (2018): The Remake That Chose Dread Over Dazzle

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0000

The smartest thing Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria does, it does before a single witch appears: it looks at Dario Argento’s 1977 original — a film built entirely out of saturated colour and screaming music — and decides to have almost none of either. Where Argento drenched his ballet school in impossible reds and greens, Guadagnino shoots his in the colour of a wet Berlin pavement: greys, browns, dishwater whites, the odd smear of dull crimson. Where Goblin’s score never let you breathe, Thom Yorke’s does almost the opposite, drifting and mournful. This is a cover version by a musician who understands that the way to honour a song is to play it in a different key. It works far more often than it has any right to, and where it fails, it fails interestingly.

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Suspiria (2018): The Remake That Chose Dread Over Dazzle