RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
Systemic shocker
MARIA DUARTE is scared witless by the remake of horror classic Suspiria
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
Suspiria (18)
Directed by Luca Guadagino
PSYCHEDELIC and feminist-driven, Luca Guadagino's homage to Dario Argento's 1977 horror classic Suspiria is not for those of a nervous disposition.
Set in the same year as the latter's film, the action unfolds over six acts and an epilogue in 1970s Berlin, with US dancer Susie Bannion (Dakota Johnson) arriving at a world-renowned dance academy run by Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton) where it transpires that all is not what it seems.
Bannion isn't formally trained but shows the raw potential the school is looking for. The plot thickens when dancers start slowly disappearing.
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