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Luca Guadagnino’s reworking of Dario Argento’s most famous giallo work, Suspiria, is similarly set in West Germany, in the late 1970s. But unlike the earlier film, which blew off this time- and place-setting information with a bit of on-screen text, this version takes pains to situate itself in its era. The big news is the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 by Palestinian terrorists, demanding the release of imprisoned members of the Baader-Meinhof group. As unease rages on the streets, a dance student barges into a psychiatrist’s office. His copious notes on her, which include charts and diagrams and mysterious codes, look like Tolkien’s jottings for the Lord of the Rings books — but the dancer leaves us in little doubt about what she thinks is going on at her school. “They are witches,” she says, casually tossing off a fact that, in the Argento film, would have been considered a huge spoiler. No such prologue, in fact, exists in the original, which ran a lean 100 minutes. Guadagnino’s version goes on for 52 minutes more. How else to fill the time?
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Baradwaj Rangan 
ini
September 3, 2018
Ugh. Such a shame. I love love Suspiria (one of my top supernatural movies only next to The Shining). I really wanted Guadagnino to put a cool spin on the art-horror genre, the sensible filmmaker that he is! Who else could have done justice to Suspiria? Nikolas Winding Refn? Julia Ducournau? Anyway, I will at least have Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu to look forward to.
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Mank fan
September 5, 2018
Ini, suspiria is not art horror, it is camp horror which is why Guadagnino was the wrong director. @ MANK chetta will probably explain this better.
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MANK
September 5, 2018
Ha haa, yes my fan. It’s more in Ramsay Brothers territory. The low budget campy ones like khooni panja or evil dead series. Not an art horror film like shining or rosemarys baby. The best guys to redo it – even though I don’t think it needs redoing , because the psychedelic visuals were the speciality of that film- would have been Sam raimi or Robert Rodriguez
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ini
September 6, 2018
Hmm. I would definitely not put this movie alongside Evil Dead or Ramsay Brothers’s. I think there is a certain tasteful ‘campness’ about it which points more towards art than low-budget. But then, one man’s camp is another man’s art. Regardless, I think Raimi or Rodriguez are too bland a filmmaker to pull off those far-out scenes. Maybe someone else with a more wicked humor. Gasper Noe?
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Ramit
May 1, 2019
Watched Suspiria on Amazon Prime. Surprised to note that even the male psychotherapist was played by Tilda Swinton in heavy makeup! Hardy any cast member knew about it during filming. Guadagnino and Swinton conjured up a fictional actor Lutz Ebersdorf to name the therapist. Eber means swine. Dorf means town. Swine-town becomes Swinton!
Later they came clean to NY Times.
“The answer to the question to me, ‘Are you playing Dr. Klemperer in “Suspiria”?’ is always that Dr. Klemperer is played by Lutz Ebersdorf,” Swinton told me last week in an email. Yet there is a more specific question she has been waiting for someone to put to her, “and curiously, to date, nobody has thought of it.”
That query, if anyone had bothered to ask, is “Are you playing Lutz Ebersdorf?” And the answer, Swinton said, is “an unequivocal yes.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/movies/tilda-swinton-suspiria.amp.html
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