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Amazon Studios Sued for Borrowing From Artist's Work in Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria

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In a recent interview with Yahoo, Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino revealed that his new horror film Suspiria is meant to be, "a sort of fierce showcase of the female artistic experience." But according to a recent lawsuit, he took too literal of an approach in this pursuit. On Thursday, the estate of Ana Mendieta claimed that the film copies images from the late artist's work. A cease and desist letter sent to Amazon Studios in July alleged that the film and trailer contained both a shot of a woman's hands bound with rope across a white table, resembling Mendieta's piece "Rape Scene," and a shot of a body silhouetted on a bed sheet, forming a similar image to Mendieta's "Untitled (Silueta Series, Mexico)." In response, these two images were removed from the film.