SUSPIRIA
2017 · Director: Luca Guadagnino
Production Designer: Inbal Weinberg
Frenesy Film — Varese, Italy
ART DIRECTOR
Berlin, 1977. A young American dancer joins a prestigious academy that conceals a dark and terrifying secret. A radical reimagining of Dario Argento's horror classic. Premiered at the 75th Venice InternationalFilm Festival.
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Chloe Grace Moretz.
✦ From the set: The hotel was almost always wrapped in dry ice fog. And every time someone went down to the basement, they discovered a new space. A new room, a new corridor, a new undergroundworld. The building never stopped revealing itself.
The entire film was shot inside the Hotel Campo dei Fiori in Varese — a breathtaking Art Nouveau hotel built in the 1920s, open for only twenty years before becoming a military hospital. Every decorative Liberty element was concealed and the hotel transformed into a severe 1960s-70s Berlin dance academy.
Beneath the hotel, a labyrinth of underground spaces — ancient kitchens, a cellar carved into rock, hiddencorridors — became the dark heart of the production.
