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Susie Bannion:
For whom were you anointed? Which of the Three Mothers?
Helena Markos:
[panicked]
Mother... Mother Suspiriorum!
[Death approaches and strokes Mother Markos's face]
Susie Bannion:
I am She.
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Suspiria where do we begin? Let's start with what little good we get out of this pile. The camera work is excellent with many uneasy zooms and abstract movements. The acting is of quality. There is some wonderfully done body horror sprinkled in.
Now the negatives. Suspiria could have used an editing and compacting and been about 45 minutes shorter. It feels like it just goes on and on and on. I have nothing against a long movie as most my favorites are well over 2 hours. But when you are presenting me dryness on this level there is going to be a problem. Suspiria comes across as a film that wants to be deep cutting high brow cinema ,but falls flat every step of the way. The final act (before the snoozer of an epilogue) is nice to look at and offers unsettling imagery, but left me scratching my head and unsatisfied.
People are calling this work polarizing, but I feel the people who are calling it a masterpiece are so far off base they're either new to cinema or just fall in love with anything obtuse and artsy. This is simply not a good cohesive film.
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Suspiria where do we begin? Let's start with what little good we get out of this pile. The camera work is excellent with many uneasy zooms and abstract movements. The acting is of quality. There is some wonderfully done body horror sprinkled in.
Now the negatives. Suspiria could have used an editing and compacting and been about 45 minutes shorter. It feels like it just goes on and on and on. I have nothing against a long movie as most my favorites are well over 2 hours. But when you are presenting me dryness on this level there is going to be a problem. Suspiria comes across as a film that wants to be deep cutting high brow cinema ,but falls flat every step of the way. The final act (before the snoozer of an epilogue) is nice to look at and offers unsettling imagery, but left me scratching my head and unsatisfied.
People are calling this work polarizing, but I feel the people who are calling it a masterpiece are so far off base they're either new to cinema or just fall in love with anything obtuse and artsy. This is simply not a good cohesive film.