On Suspiria, her first project with Oscar-nominated director Luca Guadagnino, production designer Inbal Weinberg faced challenges that were almost insurmountable, on creative and practical levels. An homage to Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic, rather than a straight remake, Guadagnino’s film demanded boundless creativity on the part of the artisans involved. “It was tough from the beginning to push your imagination further, constructing something from nothing,” Weinberg says. “Sure, references are great, but you can’t just walk into someone’s apartment and say, ‘Oh, I want to do it like this.’ It [features] a space that’s never existed, so that was tough.”
Putting herself through endless “mental exercises” to satisfy a specific vision, the designer also faced off against The Grand Hotel Camp dei Fiori, an abandoned hotel on top of an Italian mountain which was built in 1910, and closed its doors in 1968. Effective as this location was in...
Putting herself through endless “mental exercises” to satisfy a specific vision, the designer also faced off against The Grand Hotel Camp dei Fiori, an abandoned hotel on top of an Italian mountain which was built in 1910, and closed its doors in 1968. Effective as this location was in...
- 11/19/2018
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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