"When you dance the dance of another, you make yourself in the image of its creator. You empty yourself so that her work can live within you."Susie Bannion (Dakota Johnson) is a young dancer who arrives in 70's Berlin dreaming of dancing in the famous Markos dance school, run by Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton), but she is soon drawn into the black magic world of the three mothers.
Rather than remaking the Dario Argento classic, Guadagnino has chosen to expand the story out, to include the turbulance of 1970's Germany, reflected in muted greys of the Berlin wall. This and the soundtrack by Thom Yorke makes the film something other. A dark, brooding film, not the bright, shock to the system that was the original, and whilst the look, sound and feel of the film initially pulls you in, eventually it pales into insignificance compared to its older more entertaining mother.
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