![]() “You’ll have a camera up there in the corner, you’ll have a camera below, you’ll have a camera on your fingers, you won’t know what’s happening but you’re just going on this crazy whirlwind 20-hour day. There’s no typical set-ups, there’s no medium, wide, close,” she said. “He really will let you do whatever you want. She called the film “the closest thing to modern Stanley Kubrick I’ve seen,” and praised Guadagnino for always pushing actors to “go further.” Moretz has worked with A-list directors such as Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton, Olivier Assayas, and Kimberly Peirce, but Guadagnino’s inventive directing style made quite the impression. He’s really special though, he’s one of the most authentic, pure souls.” And he wants to depict what is special about that person, be it male or female, as adequately onscreen as he can. “What’s so special about Luca is that he doesn’t see gender. “A lot of people wouldn’t expect a grown man to be able to depict women in that way,” she said. It was clear in her voice that even at 21, she is already fatigued by Hollywood’s view of women and girls, but she lit up when talking about Guadagnino. Though she was tight-lipped on details at the time, she did say “there’s a good bit of nudity in the movie,” referring to an epic final scene featuring all the actresses in a blood-spattering resurrection ritual. At an event during the Provincetown Film Festival in June, Moretz had many nice things to say about Guadagnino. It’s a slam dunk for women onscreen, though it does put them through a meat-hook-shaped ringer.Ĭhloë Grace Moretz plays Patricia in the film, a dancer who goes missing from the school and provides the first mention of witchcraft in the movie’s opening scene. (There is an old man, but he’s played by Tilda Swinton). An unlikely candidate to pass the infamous Bechdel test, which measures gender parity onscreen, “Suspiria” actually features only two male actors, each with a single line apiece. Set at a highly competitive girls’ dance school in Cold War Berlin, the film touches on themes of inherited trauma, hysterical women, and Germany’s postwar shame - all bathed in blood and witchcraft. ![]() Luca Guadagnino is earning heaps of praise for his “Suspiria” remake, an ambitious reinvention of Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic.
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