Suspiria

Not a remake so much as an argument with the original, and it is colder, longer, and about postwar German guilt.

Luca Guadagnino keeps the dance academy and the coven and throws away everything else. The palette is grey and brown rather than primary red. The plot is comprehensible. There is a subplot about the Baader-Meinhof hijackings running on the television throughout, and a psychotherapist searching for his wife, who was taken in the war.

The dance is real and central. Damien Jalet choreographed it, and the sequence in which Susie performs upstairs while a woman's body is broken in a mirrored room below is truly extraordinary.

Thom Yorke wrote the score and it is nothing like Goblin.

It runs 152 minutes and the last act goes somewhere so lurid that people either laugh or surrender. Tilda Swinton plays three roles, one of them an elderly man, under prosthetics.