Synopsis
Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Company. When she vaults to the role of lead dancer, the woman she replaces breaks down and accuses the company's female directors of witchcraft. Meanwhile, an inquisitive psychotherapist and a member of the troupe uncover dark and sinister secrets as they probe the depths of the studio's hidden underground chambers.
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Cast
- Dakota JohnsonSusie Bannion / Naomi Bannion
- Tilda SwintonMadame Blanc / Helena Markos / Dr. Klemperer
- Mia GothSara Simms
- Angela WinklerMiss Tanner
- Ingrid CavenMiss Vendegast
- Chloë Grace MoretzPatricia Hingle
- Elena FokinaOlga Ivanova
- Sylvie TestudMiss Griffith
- Renée SoutendijkMiss Huller
- Christine LeboutteMiss Balfour
Recommendations
- 100
The Telegraph
Dispassionate engagement won't fly here. You either stagger out early or plunge in up to your elbows. - 100
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Suspiria is a gorgeous, hideous, uncompromising film, and while it seeks to do many things, settling our minds about the brutality of the past and human nature is not one of them. - 100
Time Out
It’s only hours afterward that Guadagnino’s film will cohere for you and yield its buried treasures: the bonds of secret sorority, the strength of a line of dancers moving like a single organism, the present rippling with the muscle memory of the past. It’s so good, it’s scary. - 91
IndieWire
Guadagnino dredges up the dead with such crazed purpose that his magnum opus is able to dance through its rough spots and make good on its foreboding promise. - 91
The Playlist
It’s a long, deliriously filmic, primal banshee-howl of macabre imagination that leaves us hormonal and drunk on delusion: the beautiful, thrilling, lurid lie of cinema. - 80
Screen Daily
Suffice to say, Suspiria tries to do much, culminating in a finale that’s almost laughably over-the-top. But the passion of Guadagnino’s messy vision — the swirl of emotions he conjures on this grand canvas — has a forcefulness that mostly transcends its sizable flaws. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The remake is never uninteresting. But it begets the question of whether the slender thread of story about a coven of witches operating out of a famed Berlin dance academy can withstand all the narrative detail, social context and cumbersome subplots heaped onto it. - 70
Variety
Suspiria has been made with enough skill to get inside your head, but enough ominous pretension to leave you scratching it.
