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Sara
Colorway synopsis:
Of the friends that Susie makes, Sara (played by my forever girl crush, Mia Goth, in the 2018 version) is the most welcoming and tender, comforting Susie as she settles into her new dormitory lifestyle at the dance company. “We’re sisters now,” she says.
Strangely enough, when Susie arrives at the Helena Markos Dance Studio, one of the dancers, Patricia, mysteriously disappears. Sara is the only friend at the company that actually does any investigating. Her concern for her friend Patricia leads her to sneak around the dance company at night, searching the file cabinets for any information, as well as meeting with Patricia’s psychotherapist, asking him his theories. When she learns that he honestly believes the instructors of the company, including the head director herself, Madame Blanc, may be involved in some decades long sinister occultism, Sara leaves her meeting with him abruptly, wanting to believe that the company she lives at is just that, a dance company.
Sara, in all her natural, innocent beauty, needs only to learn the truth for herself, which inevitably she does.
In Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 version of “Suspiria,” the colors are the complete opposite of Argento’s version: desaturated, muted, dark. Yet, there is a soft allure to the color palette, especially with the character’s auras and the setting itself.
The character of Sara is showcased more in the 2018 version than in the original, and her presence is so much more meaningful in this version too, which is why I wanted to give her her own colorway.