The remake is an interesting directorial choice. Nolan did it with Insomnia. Guadagnino with Suspiria. Van Sant with Psycho. Herzog also tackled Nosferatu. It implies a labour of love, coming from a privileged place: you are an established director who can pick and choose which projects you want to make. Unsurprisingly, Eggers seems more interested in the aesthetics than the acting or the dialogue. He delights in the possibilities of CGI, the construction of this medieval world. There is, perhaps, an analogy to be made between the arrival of the plague and recent global events. However, the insertion of dialogue into the gothic mix seems to derail the mystery and the terror. Every time the actors open their mouths and emit sounds, the movie feels as though it changes register. Although when I commented on this to non-English speakers here in Montevideo, no-one seemed to agree. Perhaps I would have entered more thoroughly into Eggers’ reimagined world if I had understood less, if it had been done in, say, Serbo-Croat.
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