Suspiria (I) (2018)
Tilda Swinton: Dr. Klemperer, Madame Blanc, Helena Markos
Photos
Quotes
-
Dr. Josef Klemperer : Love and manipulation, they share houses very often. They are frequent bedfellows.
-
Dr. Josef Klemperer : A delusion is lies that tell truth.
-
Susie Bannion : [When asked what dance feels like to her] It felt like what I think it must feel like to fuck.
Madame Blanc : Do you mean fuck a man?
Susie Bannion : No. I was thinking of an animal.
-
Dr. Josef Klemperer : [to Sara] Patricia wrote about "Three Mothers" lost to time, predating all Christian invention. Pre-God, pre-devil. Mother Tenebrarum, Mother Lachrymarum and Mother Suspiriorum. Darkness, tears, and sighs.
-
Dr. Josef Klemperer : You can give someone your delusion, Sara. That's religion.
[pause]
Dr. Josef Klemperer : That is the Reich.
-
Susie Bannion : For whom were you anointed? Which of the Three Mothers?
Helena Markos : [panicked] Mother... Mother Suspiriorum!
[Death approaches and strokes Mother Markos's face]
Susie Bannion : I am She.
-
Madame Blanc : It's difficult not to be curious about you.
-
Madame Blanc : 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. Do you understand?
Susie Bannion : Yeah.
Madame Blanc : You're in a company now. You have to find your right place. You have to decide - what is it you want to be in this company? Is it the head? The spine? The sex? The heart?
Susie Bannion : The hands. I want to be this company's hands.
-
Helena Markos : This isn't vanity! This isn't art!
-
Madame Blanc : Movement is never mute. It is a language. It's a series of energetic shapes written in the air like words forming sentences. Like poems. Like prayers.
-
Madame Blanc : Part of the issue always is not being able to see your body in space. One angle in one mirror or on film is not enough. Movement is never mute. It is a language. It's a shape of energetic shapes written in the air like words forming sentences. Like poems. Like prayers.
Susie Bannion : Spells?
Madame Blanc : When you jump, it's not the height, but the space beneath you that matters. Every leap into the air must be a coup de foudre.
Susie Bannion : I don't understand.
Madame Blanc : A strike of lightning. A bolt of love, in fact.
Susie Bannion : That's beautiful.
Madame Blanc : There are two things that dance can never be again: beautiful and cheerful. Today, we need to break the nose of every beautiful thing. And if you're going to be a dancer, you must learn French.
-
Madame Blanc : You don't look better, or are you this pale all the time?
-
Helena Markos : [to Susie] There will be nothing of you left inside. Only space for me.
Susie Bannion : I came here for this. You've all waited long enough.
Helena Markos : [Excited] It is happening! It is happening!
-
Susie Bannion : At this point the jumps are opposing the pull of the structure, but... it's soon for that, don't you think? The floor work is keeping the other dancers pushed down, so this-
[moves herself about the floor]
Susie Bannion : -this could echo that... on a slightly higher point of elevation. If I stay close to the ground now, and go straight into the jumps where you have them later, then that's... more to the point. The resistance is more... emphatic. Right?
Madame Blanc : I don't know how aware you are of what times we lived through here 40 years ago, out of which this piece was made. We learned at great cost through those years the value of the balance of things. Every arrow that flies feels the pull of the earth, but we must aim upwards. We need to get you in the air.
