Suspiria bewitches but the cauldron's too shallow

Suspiria bewitches but the cauldron's too shallow

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https://www.cnet.com/news/suspiria-2018-review-witches-bewitch-but-the-cauldrons-too-shallow/

Divided into six acts and an epilogue, Guadagnino's remake is set in 1977 in a divided Berlin. Monolithic concrete, peeling paint and watery grey skies are hemmed in by the looming wall. Nazis are in government and hijackers are at the airport. But this backdrop of chaos only filters in snatches into the Markos academy, where the dancers are enclosed and reflected by the mirrored walls of their studio.

Tilda Swinton leads the colourful cabal of motherly school staff. Poised and aloof, Swinton drifts around the dancefloor in full-length robes like she's grown from the ground. She's bewitched by new star pupil Dakota Johnson, the American dancer who may be the key to a power struggle within the academy's wacky faculty.