Don't Look Now
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Movie Reviews of Don't Look Now
Movie Review: Wow, now this is scary!
Summary: 5 Stars
You see the things I like about psychological horror films (ala The Exorcist, The Ring, Repulsion, and When A Stranger Calls) is that they are always unpredictable, they don't play by the rules of a typical horror film, and some manage to scarier after each viewing as more of the horror is understood. This is what people don't get about this film and The Blair Witch Project. It's what you don't see that scares you. 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 and John Baxter 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? Watch the flick to find out. This is one that must be viewed alone in the dark.Movie Review: Another Death in Venice
Summary: 5 Stars
I am writing this in response to another posted review that says the ending to this film does not make sense within the context of what has gone before. This could not be further from the truth. The entire point of this film lies in its last few minutes. Not just that one's inability to recognize your own gifts and a reality beyond the surface can lead to tragedy (isn't this what is going on in Kubrick's The Shining too?), but, more importantly, that one's death is what one's life is all about. The film shows in its stunning visuals, in its meticulous editing, that the mosaic of a person's life will only make sense at the moment of his death, that every splintered second that has led him to that point will only then make sense. The film postulates quite eloquently that our deaths are, in fact, the sum total and, in a sense, the "meaning" of our lives. Only then it will be too late for our new-found awareness to matter. Incidentally, I don't know if Paramount was aware of it, but the initial release of the dvd contains the uncut version of the film, rather than the version released in the US that was edited for an "r" rating, although there is no indication of this fact on the box.
Movie Review: Atmospheric and brilliant, with a chilling twist ending.....
Summary: 5 Stars
Set against a dreary Venice backdrop (strange, as Venice is usually portrayed as a rather idyllic and peaceful place), this bleak horror film is overflowing with an eerie atmosphere which builds and builds to a raging climax. While featuring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as a husband and wife who's young daughter Christine drowns, leaving them depressed and detached from each other. However, on this trip to Venice, Christie's character meets two elderly sisters (one of them blind) who claim to have powers and tell her they can see Christine. Christie's character then becomes adamant that Christine is still with her parents. Sutherland's character John is unconvinced, until he sees a small figure in the same sort of red mackintosh his daughter used to wear. Yet, there is a serial killer on the loose, and is John playing into their hands? There are many different confusing plot points which keep your mind thinking all the way through, and you are not guaranteed to 'get' this film the first time you watch it. However it should be watched just because of that shocker ending. Even if you know what is going to happen, it still packs one Hell of a punch. Five stars, indefinitely.Movie Review: An Eyeful
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the creepiest films ever made. This one stays with you, and all of the participants are crucial to the film's effect, so it's not just the artful photography and editing. The beautiful Julie Christie, always a bit mysterious, has an amazing sex scene with Donald Sutherland (they play a husband and wife in this film), that is intercut with shots of the two getting dressed afterward. Erotica, not pornography, although it treads a thin line. Inspired from start to finish, Sutherland's slow motion fall from a scaffold is foreshadowed earlier by Christie's slow motion blackout at a restaurant table. There are many moments of cinemagraphic brilliance throughout, and Roeg's triumph here is how he manages to take a rather simple story and make it seem more complex and deep than it really is. Because the film is so visually stimulating, the shocking ending is not critical to its success; in other words, knowing what's going to happen doesn't matter, as it would if the rest of the movie weren't so stunning. This isn't just one of the best horror pictures ever, it's a very good movie, above categorization.Movie Review: Ending Will Send Chills of Shock and Sadness
Summary: 5 Stars
I've tried to rent this movie so many times over the past 7 years, but no one seems to carry it. So, I bought it, watched it yesterday and had to comment.
I am not a fan of slasher movies, but rather prefer an intelligent, complex, and ambiguous story. "Don't Look Now" is one of a few movies that has all of these elements. You don't notice it while watching, but your emotions slowly build -- empathy, curiousity, passion, fear -- until the very end, when all of those emotions 'burst' into all-over-the-body chills and for me, tears of sadness, empathy and disappointment (not in the plot of course ... I'll let you experience your own when you watch).
Let's just say that I couldn't stop researching reviews, telling my husband and friends about how chilling it was, etc.... This has been going on for two days. It will simply leave you in shock.
Great psychological thriller.