Don't Look Now
by Nicolas Roeg
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Actor: Clelia Matania, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Julie Christie, Massimo SeratoDirector: Nicolas Roeg
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Anthony B. Richmond
Producer: Anthony B. Unger
Producer: Frederick Muller
Producer: Peter Katz
Writer: Allan Scott
Writer: Chris Bryant
Writer: Daphne Du Maurier
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Don't Look Now
Movie Review: Watch out for the little girl in the red coat!.
Summary: 3 Stars
There is no doubt that this film has one of the creepiest endings in a horror film, however Don't Look Now just wasn't as good as I expected. Having lost their daughter in a tragic accident a couple (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) try to get on with their lives. Accompanied by his wife the husband is working in Venice. His wife meets a pair of sisters 1 of whom is a medium and claims to be able to contact the dead child but whilst the wife draws comfort from this it angers her husband who feels its damaging the healing process. The plot unravels against a moody backdrop of an out of season Venice in which a serial killer is on the loose. Dealing with issues such as faith and fate, director Nicholas Roeg made an intelligent supernatural thriller. The film has tons of atmosphere but I kind of felt bored during the course of the film, maybe it's because of the slow pace but still I just didn't find it that interesting, most of the time nothing happened onscreen as the characters weren't doing anything in particular just wondering off in the streets of Venice admiring the sites, and this would usually go on for ages. Don't get me wrong though it is a good film and has a reputation of being a classic 70's horror flick, and uses mystery and suspense instead of blood and gore, but it was abit too slow and I'll be honest I wasn't impressed by the acting either, a couple of times I just felt like dozing off, I don't know maybe I'll give it a second chance.
Summary of Don't Look Now
Working with elements of the traditional horror genre - second sight, ESP, warnings from the dead, a mad killer - and a cinematography of disquieting beauty and dreamlike sense of dislocation, director Nicolas Roeg weaves a fabric of anxiety that questions all reality. The evocative use of the back streets of Venice is a sinister participant in the action based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. This intensely erotic and macabre film boasts outstanding performances by Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland.
Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now once seemed radically new with its kaleidoscopic imagery, dreamlike editing, and willingness to let mystery be mysterious on several levels of reality/illusion--plus art-house darling Julie Christie in a long, nude love scene! Nowadays, this 1974 adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier ghost story looks almost classical. Following the drowning of their child in England, Laura (Christie) and John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) have come to dank, eternally dying Venice, where he is supervising the restoration of a moldering church and she is either slipping into or climbing out of madness with the help of a pair of creepy spinster sisters, one of whom can "see" even though blind. John may share this psychic power, though he resists accepting it as the canals fill with murder victims, surface realities turn shimmery as water, and a red-coated figure--the daughter's ghost?--keeps flickering in the corner of our vision. Though surreal and perplexing, the film does eventually add up, and the ending remains a real throat-grabber. --Richard T. Jameson
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