The Opened Heart: Suspiria (dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2018)

Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria is a movie about women’s bodies, but I don’t mean what you think I mean by that. The camera exposes and lingers on the bodies of the women on screen; it glorifies and glamorizes them; it even loves them. Yet that gaze is not sexual. Suspiria is a movie about the sinews in a dancer’s shoulders, the rippling vertebrae of her upp…