Suspiria

The image of a bonimenteur, or story-teller, is that of someone who uses verbal illusions to make us believe, seduce  or persuade. But, in the history of the cinema, the term was used for  the person tasked with giving a live explanation of a film; in the age  of the silent cinema, this voice was the guarantor for the plot,  “providing access to this imaginary world, which the animated images  will bring to life before our eyes”. As an actor, but also  ventriloquist, dancer and puppeteer, Jonathan Capdevielle is a genuine  story-teller – using vocal artifices to flesh out images. With Arthur B.  Gillette and Jennifer Eliz Hutt as guides to the kingdom of shadows,  these contemporary story-tellers melt into the images, while redoubling  them and describing them from the interior. The film selected for this  spectral dive make use of a type of relationships with images and the  vertigo they cause: Suspiria (1977) plunges us into the  disturbing phantasmagorias of Dario Argento. On the borderline between  fiction and commentary, between incarnation and explanation, these  story-tellers transmit to us the mysterious fluidity that runs through  this film.

Source: program of the CND