Don't Look Now (DVD)

== DON'T LOOK NOW == Released in 1973, in the genre Drama/Horror/Mystery, and directed by Nicolas Roeg, 'Don't Look Now' is a stunning film starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. It is adapted from an old Daphne du Maurier ghost story. Set almost entirely in Venice 'Don't Look Now' has to be the best film of the 1970's and beyond, and it is still entirely relevant today. Barely dated, this is one of those stand alone films that is truly remarkable, and one that has held it's deserved place in Cinema history.- == SYNOPSIS == The film begins in England with John and Laura Baxter. (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) Their ...  Read the complete review

Laura and John Baxter (Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland) are spending a day at home whilst their two children Johnny (Nicholas Salter) and Christine (Sharon Williams) are playing outside. Christine is throwing a ball around whilst Johnny rides around on his bike. Inside Laura is researching an answer to a question Christine asked her and John is looking at some slides of a church he is to restore. In one of them he notices a small figure with a red coat on, that looks like Christine's. He spills some water on it and the figure seems to leek red ink all over the slide like blood. John then gets up and runs out he senses something is wrong. When he gets outside he ...  Read the complete review

John and Laura Baxter are absolutely devastated when their young daughter, Christine, drowns not far from their home. To help them get over the shock, they go to Venice, where John has been engaged to renovate an old church. Laura meets two old women, one of whom is psychic and claims that she has seen Christine. Laura is convinced, but John is more sceptical. Then Laura is suddenly called back to England to see to their son, who has had an accident. While she is away, John begins to see things that couldn't possibly be there; namely his wife and his daughter. All this coincides with a series of murders in Venice. The psychic suspects that he also has the gift of second ...  Read the complete review

Don't look now is a film by one of my all time favourite directors, Nicholas Roeg, it is a famous as much for a scene in the film where the couple, played by real life couple, Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie have sex, there was huge controversy over whether this was acting or whether this was real, but this shouldn't take away from the film in anyway as it is a much more important film than to revolve around this issue. Don't look now is loosely based on a Daphne de Maurier short story, it revolves around John and Laura Baxter, a couple whose daughter has recently drowned in a tragic accident. The film is a fan's heaven with the amazing shots, the ...  Read the complete review

A good friend of mine cites this film as his all time favourite movie. By all accounts it's a masterpiece of modern cinema according to many books and websites, however, apart from a few individual flashes of brilliance I didn't really get into it. The plot concerns Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, a couple with two children who live in England. One day their daughter falls into their lake and dies. Haunted by this accident the couple move to Venice where Sutherland is renovating a local church. Julie Christie, who has never quite got over the death of their daughter seeks solace in strange pair of elderly sisters, one of which is blind. Sutherland is ...  Read the complete review