Director Luca Guadagnino Talks Suspiria Remake
Steve Barton
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The latest director to be attached to a remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria is Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash), and he recently sat down with Den of Geek to talk about his approach to recreating the classic for a new generation and why he wanted to do it.
“I want to pay homage because watching Suspiria by Dario Argento has been a pivotal experience for me. I think it even made part of me what it is,” says Guadagnino. “I saw Suspiria when I was 14, but before seeing the actual film on TV, I had seen for the first time the poster of this girl dancer with the reclining head severed and the blood flowing from her torso to the sex when I was ten, and I was shocked! I had my own internet in my head, and I was going back to the image constantly.”
Guadagnino continues, “I don’t much like post-modernism because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to do something significant, and we could also mention who use post-modernism in this way—maybe we shouldn’t. I know it’s post-modern to say, ‘I want to pay homage to the emotion I felt when I saw the movie,’ but truthfully, I want to understand what is the concept of horror in motherhood, which I think is the element that struck me when I was 14. And I wanted to be relentless. Nobody complains that we go and see a new version of La Traviata at the Met. If it’s a great Traviata, you will say. ‘I will never forget this Traviata.’ I think we shouldn’t be shy of thinking that we can interpret text like a movie again, depending on the point of view and what we do with it more than anything else. Of course a lot of remakes of important films, particularly of horror films, they suck.”
The remake will be set in Berlin in 1977, and both Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton star.
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