Capital Celluloid 2023 — Day 132: Fri May 12

Suspiria (Argento, 1977): BFI Southabnk, NFT1, 8.40pm


This film is also being screened at BFI Southbank on May 12th (details here). Tonight's presentation features an introduction by director Dario Argento, and here are the details of the season devoted to him at the cinema in May.

BFI review:
Four decades ago, Italian genre master Dario Argento brazenly subverted expectations by abandoning the giallo tradition upon which he had built his reputation, launching headlong into a fantastical tale of the supernatural. The resulting film remains not just one of the director’s most celebrated works, but a defining classic of horror cinema. American ballerina Suzy Bannion arrives in Germany to study at the prestigious Tanz Dance Academy. But as a series of murders and a variety of other inexplicable events begin to pile up, Suzy realises her new school houses a terrifying secret. Dripping in dark imagination, Suspiria ranks as one of Argento’s most visionary works – its garish colour palette and bravura set pieces adding to a frenzied sense of dread.
Michael Blyth

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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