Suspiria (2018)

SUSPIRIA  (2018)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Luca Guadagnino
    Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Grace Moretz,
    Sylvie Testud, Mia Goth, Angela Winkler, Alek Wek,
    Elena Fokina, Ingrid Caven, Fabrizia Sacchi
A horror art film starring Dakota Johnson as an Amish girl from Ohio who moves to Berlin in 1977 to join a modern dance company. Berlin looks drab and colorless, terrorism is all over the news, the dance studio is full of shadows, and there's something sinister about the women who run the place. What's going on here? Our Amish girl from Ohio is about to find out. This isn't a remake of Dario Argento's 1977 "Suspiria" as much as it is a reimagining. The story's told in six acts and an epilogue, and if the dots don't always seem to connect, it's good to remember that dreams don't always make perfect sense, either. Just keep an eye on what Guadignino puts on the screen, and especially keep an eye on Tilda Swinton - all three of her. She does something here that not many actors could pull off. If you know what that is in advance, you'll still be amazed at how well she does it. The movie itself is a trip to hell - at the end, literally. If the best horror movies are nightmares at 24 frames per second, this one achieves that, for sure.