Don't Look Now
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Movie Reviews of Don't Look Now
Movie Review: Redrum
Summary: 5 Stars
Nicolas Roeg was building his name as a director of mysterious and edgy films in the early 70s. "Don't Look Now," which followed "Walkabout" and preceded "The Man Who Fell to Earth," featured Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland in Daphne Du Maurier's tale of ESP and death in Venice. Paramount has released the film as part of its Widescreen Collection. Alas, there are no extras beyond a first-rate trailer. "Don't Look Now" is best remembered for its shocking ending and for the stars' did-they-or-didn't-they? sex scene. (My vote: Hell yes, watch her face). The movie has lost none of its terrible beauty, or its ability to trigger near-heart attacks. Roeg's cameras wander the back streets and swollen canals of Venice, soaking up the ages in Technicolor. A lot of the film is cast in shadows, with low-light grain present in many of the indoor scenes. The Dolby Digital audio is OK, forcefully delivering the organ music of doom.Movie Review: Redrum
Summary: 5 Stars
Nicolas Roeg was building his name as a director of mysterious and edgy films in the early 70s. "Don't Look Now," which followed "Walkabout" and preceded "The Man Who Fell to Earth," featured Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland in Daphne Du Maurier's tale of ESP and death in Venice. Paramount has released the film as part of its Widescreen Collection. Alas, there are no extras beyond a first-rate trailer. "Don't Look Now" is best remembered for its shocking ending and for the stars' did-they-or-didn't-they? sex scene. (My vote: ... yes, watch her face). The movie has lost none of its terrible beauty, or its ability to trigger near-heart attacks. Roeg's cameras wander the back streets and swollen canals of Venice, soaking up the ages in Technicolor. A lot of the film is cast in shadows, with low-light grain present in many of the indoor scenes. The Dolby Digital audio is OK, forcefully delivering the organ music of doom.Movie Review: Roeg, Sutherland, Christie All in Top Form Film Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Director Nicholas Roeg brought this gem to the screen in the beginning of his switchover from cinematographer to film director. It may be that his work here is so good simply because his visual powers were so strong from all those years with a camera as his partner. As a director, he would progressively be pulled away from that all visual, solitary world of the camera. He had a dream duo of Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie who play a married couple in Venice during the winter trying to come to some terms with the death of their child. They are haunted at every turn and Venice enhances that effect instead of lessening it. By turns erotic and supernaturally chilling, Roeg makes this film his own and it is still as startlingly unique today as it was decades ago when it was first made. I'm sure it will be a big seller on DVD and it deserves to be.Movie Review: Had To Watch It Twice...
Summary: 5 Stars
If I'd reviewed DON'T LOOK NOW immediately after seeing it the first time, I would probably have given it about three stars. Why? Not because it's an average movie, but because it had to settle in and nag at me for a while. I kept thinking about it's many subtle hints and portents. I kept seeing different scenes in my head. Yep, I was haunted by this movie! It came to the point where I simply had to watch it again. I now consider DLN a dark and brooding masterpiece of horror and supernatural dread. Both Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie are perfect in their roles as shell-shocked parents, forced to face both the realities of death and the possibility of what lies beyond it. I highly recommend this movie. If you don't love it the first go round, wait a while and see if it doesn't grow on you...Movie Review: Hauntingly beautiful....
Summary: 5 Stars
I consider this film, "The Man Who Fell to Earth", and "Walkabout", Roeg's best films. I wish he were still making this type of beautiful movie. I saw this when it first came out and still remembered it, but it didn't ruin my pleasure in another viewing. As other reviewers have stated, it "haunts" you.
As for those that complained about the nude scene, I think that it was the most tender depiction of loving marital sex to this date. Sutherland didn't have 6-pack abs, but he did look like an attractive man in his unique way; and bless Christie for her natural breasts. It's nice to see actors in movies today with their unreal great bodies, but it's hard to relate to them in a serious film.