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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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - great ingredients but not quite emiril dish
DVD: Don't Look Now:
Assuming you want horror/suspense, you could not have finer
ingredients. Great actors, author(s), cinematography, Venice
scenes, psychic phenomena. But, (besides a little too
much butt) the continuity just was'nt there in our opinion.
Lovely boats tho.
Twoseniorcitizens
Rating: - 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. Actually I did find it more tolerable this time--less scary, but it was awfully long and I lost interest about two thirds of the way through. The cinematography is gorgous and there's a lot of beauty in the film, lots of shots of the splendid old churches. It just didn't work for me. It is supposed to be extremely mysterious, with all of the dark, decaying ... Read More
Rating:  - 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 most influential. Using Daphne du Maurier's brilliantly ambiguous and mysterious novella as its base, Roeg uses her ghost story to produce what is really a meditation on time and space and the way in which fiction (and particularly film) structure our epistemological awareness of them both. The primary setting is Venice during the ... Read More
Rating: - 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 a pair of sisters (Hilary Mason and Clelia Matania) has the psychic ability to contact the dead girl. The husband, however, tries to remain coolly rational about the situation, even as evidence mounts that he may have the gift himself. It all culminates in a startling conclusion.
I find I have to evaluate this film ... Read More
Rating:  - 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. The ending was NOT scary, and it was so anti-climatic that I was expecting more. THIS IS IT????
Positives:
Some good suspense, which seemingly had nothing to do with the story..
Julie Christie naked
I'm not a fan of gore or anythign like that, I really do like a good suspenseful movie. This one just does not deliver.
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