'Suspiria' review: Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton dance with the demons
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Oct 30, 2018
2 minutes
"Suspiria" takes a good long while with everything: Its evocations of 1977 West Berlin, dominated by news and stray bombings of the militant Red Army Faction; its dance rehearsal and performance scenes, reminding the post-Holocaust world that words such as "beautiful" or "cheerful" no longer apply; and, as bookends, two protracted vignettes of spine-twisting, bone-crunching physical cruelty, scored to the sound of female screams. Happy Halloween!
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