Luca Guadagnino, ‘Suspiria’ Cast Talk Tilda Swinton’s Possible Double Role, Dakota Johnson’s Therapy

Venice premiere today. US opening Nov 2.

Metascore 76 from 13 critics (original is 79): http://www.metacritic.com/movie/suspiria-2018/critic-reviews

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/luca-guadagnino-suspiria-tilda-swinton-dakota-johnson-venice-film-festival-1202924289/

A glowing Luca Guadagnino held court at Saturday’s press conference in Venice for his radical re-imagining of Dario Argento’s classic chiller “Suspiria,” where it became quite clear that Tilda Swinton plays two parts in the film — one an elderly man — though she vehemently denied it.
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On a more serious note, the director talked about the importance of dance in “Suspiria,” which features some demanding avant-garde choreography. “Dance wasn’t just dance, but was instead used as a character, as a language — in this case, the language of the transcendence of magic,” Guadagnino said.

Regarding the music, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke said he was unable to reference the original film’s soundtrack by progressive Italian rock group Goblin, but he found the band’s use of repetition interesting. “Repetition of motifs again and again and again … to the point where you say: ‘I don’t want to hear that anymore!'”

Yorke drew instead on Krautrock, as experimental German rock of the 1970s is known. “Suspiria,” which is set in a divided Berlin, offered “a really cool way to totally immerse myself in that [musical] area with full permission,” Yorke said.