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Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller - Thriller / Theatrical Release: 1974 / Director: Nicolas Roeg / Actors: Julie Christie, Donald ... more
Don't Look Now (DVD) ... Sutherland ... / DVD released 29 July, 2002 at Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: PAL / Don't Look Now was filmed in 1973 and based around a Daphne Du Maurier novel. Directed by Nicolas Roeg, it has lost none of its chill: like Kubrick's The Shining, its dazzling use of juxtaposition, colour, sound and editing make it a seductive experience in cinematic terror, whose aftershock lingers in daydreams and nightmares, filling you with uncertainty and dread even after its horrific climax. Donald Sutherland plays John Baxter, an architect, Julie Christie his wife: a well-to-do couple whose young daughter drowns while out playing. Cut to Venice, out of season, where the couple encounter a pair of sisters, one of whom claims psychic powers and to have communicated with their dead daughter. The subsequent plot is as labyrinthine as the back streets of the city itself, down which Baxter spots a diminutive and elusive red-coated figure akin to his daughter, before being drawn into an almost unbearable finale. Don't Look Now is a Gothic masterpiece, with its melange of gore, mystery, ecstasy, the supernatural and above all grief, while the city of Venice itself--which thanks to Roeg and his team seems to breathe like a dark, sinister living organism throughout the movie--deserves a credit in its own right. Not just a magnificent drama but an advanced feat of cinema. --David Stubbs

Newest Review: ... hairstyles were very different then - perhaps if you expect it, it won't be quite as painful to watch! Julie Christie seems ... more

 ... to be more famous for her beauty than anything else, but she actually is a good actress. As Laura, she doesn't have to portray the same emotions that Sutherland did, but she still gives a good and emotive performance as a grieving mother. We do get to see rather a lot of her in a long and drawn-out sex scene with her husband, but it is tastefully done and I'm sure that the majority of men will love it. And she certainly is very attractive. The two old ladies are played by Hilary Mason and Clelia Matania are sufficient...more

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Premium Review Don't Look Now (DVD): HORROR IN VENICE. (1383 words)
by - written on 05/03/08 (Very useful, 96 readings)
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== 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

mmintfresh
Crowned Review "Nothing is what it seems." (1260 words)
by - written on 21/09/02 (Very useful, 188 readings)
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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

sunmeilan
Crowned Review Don't Look Now (DVD): Light a candle for Christine (1038 words)
by - written on 08/08/09 (Very useful, 82 readings)
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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

paulie1975
Premium Review Nic Roeg is a cinematic genius (1102 words)
by - written on 30/05/09 (Very useful, 55 readings)
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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

adambrown400
Premium Review Don't Look Now (DVD): Don't Look Now (449 words)
by - written on 29/10/08 (Very useful, 34 readings)
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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

 
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