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Bookmark this pageDon't Look Now (1973)
Director: Nicolas Roeg
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From Time Out Film Guide
A superbly chilling essay in the supernatural, adapted from Daphne du Maurier's short story about a couple, shattered by the death of their small daughter, who go to Venice to forget. There, amid the hostile silences of an off-season resort, they are approached by a blind woman with a message of warning from the dead child; and half- hoping, half-resisting, they are sucked into a terrifying vortex of time where disaster may be foretold but not forestalled. Conceived in Roeg's usual imagistic style and predicated upon a series of ominous associations (water, darkness, red, shattering glass), it's hypnotically brilliant as it works remorselessly toward a sense of dislocation in time; an undermining of all the senses, in fact, perfectly exemplified by Sutherland's marvellous Hitchcockian walk through a dark alley where a banging shutter, a hoarse cry, a light extinguished at a window, all recur as in a dream, escalating into terror the second time round because a hint of something seen, a mere shadow, may have been the dead child.Author: TM
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- Aidy Shaw said...
- Posted on Jan 03 2012 03:37 One of the most moving films that I have ever seen, it evokes emotion through the contrast between routine and shocking imagery. The two leads are brilliant, and their love scene is one of the most touching yet sensual ever filmed. One feels their grief, their confusion, but most of all their love, which makes the final scenes so very tragic. Only Roeg could have made this exquisitely edited film, and it is the template for intelligent horror. A masterpiece.
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- Dailyllama said...
- Posted on May 02 2011 00:59 Brilliant but punctuated with yards of searing boredom...
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- Randy said...
- Posted on Jan 19 2009 04:32 Don't Look Now spans ancient fears, the supernatural, modern day confusion, and caution with the future. A little fright along the way always seals the interest.
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Cast & crew
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Producer: Peter Katz
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serrato, Renato Scarpa full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 110 mins
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