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Don't Look Now (1974)

Starring: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland Director: Nicolas Roeg Rating: R (Restricted) Format: DVD
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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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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.

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66 of 69 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not for all tastes -- but a brilliant, frightening film, January 28, 2004
DON'T LOOK NOW is a film for people with a particular taste, and the unwary viewer will either be pleasantly or unpleasantly shocked. From a seemingly simple premise -- a couple trying to overcome their daughter's death, and the odd psychic they meet while staying in Venice -- director Nicholas Roeg creates a thriller/horror movie/dazzling puzzles that slowly infects your mind and then shocks you with its bizarre twists.

Be warned: this isn't a movie for everyone. It relies on visual puzzles and clues and an incredible lot of misdirection for its effect. This might bore some people; it had me riveted with the first scene and held me up through the mind-bending conclusion. Like THE SIXTH SENSE, SLEUTH, THE USUAL SUSPECTS, and THE OTHERS, the film is playing a massive deception on the audience and the characters, engaing in a strange game that pays off in an incredibly satisfying (if devastating) way. Every time you think you know what kind of story you're watching, the movie starts veering in another direction, and only the finale finally makes the purpose of the plot clear.

Director Roeg, a former cinematographer, crafts an eerie vision of Venice as damp, mouldy, and crumbling, and his visual compositions have a startling quality that adds to the bizarre and alienated moodof the film. Although few movies have directly copied the story of DON'T LOOK NOW, its directorial style has become the standard for such filmmakers as David Lynch, M. Night Shyamalan, and David Fincher.

This is a landmark piece of work and worth viewing if you enjoy films full of mystery and intelligence (for example, the movies I listed above) and unusual visual style.

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An Eyeful, July 8, 2006
By Mark D. Prouse "Dustyart" (Riverdale (Bronx), NY) - See all my reviews
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Elegant Terror, June 21, 2002
By W. Kaplan "calyndula" (Wynnewood, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This film, which features Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland at their most young and gorgeous, may be one of the scariest movies ever made.

Based on a Daphne DuMaurier story, it concerns two grieving parents (Christie and Sutherland) who have lost their young daughter in a horrible drowning accident right on their opulent English estate. Mourning beyond reason, the shattered couple goes to Venice, where Sutherland repeatedly sees visions of his dead daughter, always just out of reach.

Through disjointed stream-of-consciousness images, gorgeous views of Venice, lush colors, eerie people with second sight, and one of the most erotic love scenes on film, we feel this couple's anguish, fear and desperate love for one another. And we know, simply by feeling it, that there is great danger lurking just out of sight. But we don't know what it is.

As the suspense builds unbearably, the viewer is mesmerized by the photography, the music, the beauty--and yes, the grief. And when the end comes...well, let's just say that you'll want to leave the lights on for many nights to come.

An absolutely brilliant film.

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4.0 out of 5 stars "Nothing is what it seems."
After the death of their daughter, Laura and John Baxter (Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland) are living in Venice, where John is restoring an old church. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Kona

3.0 out of 5 stars Watch out for the little girl in the red coat!.
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. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Puzzle box

5.0 out of 5 stars SIMPLY GREAT
This is has been a 5 star movie for me every time I've watched it. Why? I guess I just enjoy it's mysterious atmosphere, it's sense of time and place. Read more
Published 3 months ago by J. Daniels

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Blend Of Supernatural Horror And Italian Gialli
I am a big fan of Italian gialli (violent murder mysteries usually involving serial killers dressed in black). Read more
Published 6 months ago by J. B. Hoyos

3.0 out of 5 stars great ingredients but not quite emiril dish
DVD: Don't Look Now:
Assuming you want horror/suspense, you could not have finer
ingredients. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Arlene M. Norman

4.0 out of 5 stars Still creepy after all these years
I saw this film when it first came out and found it...well, creepy. Now, having found it on the library shelf I thought I'd see how I'd like it. Read more
Published 8 months ago by R. Swanson

5.0 out of 5 stars Death in Venice
Nicholas Roeg's 1973 DON'T LOOK NOW may be one of the single best studio films produced during the great so-called Hollywood Renaissance of 1969-1977; it certainly is one of the... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Jay Dickson

4.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent atmosphere, but the climax is a problem
Devastated by the death of their young daughter, an architect and his wife (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) spend some time in Venice, where the wife becomes convinced that... Read more
Published 13 months ago by David Bonesteel

2.0 out of 5 stars Slow.....
It's bad, when about halfway through the movie, I wanted it to end. I don't mind a slow movie if it leads up to something incredible. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Daniel J. Shatz

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't Look Back DVD. Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie
Although this film came out a while ago, at last I am pleased to be able to get this on DVD. By todays film standards, it is a little dated, and not really a horror story, more a... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Aussie Mish

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