Don't Look Now (1973)
Country: GB
Technical: col 110m
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie
Synopsis:
An architect working on the restoration of a Venetian church takes his wife with him to Venice after they lose their daughter in a drowning accident at their house. There, after contact with a medium, she becomes happier and more reconciled to their child's death, which in turn makes him suspicious and uneasy.
Review:
A film with its own special atmosphere and its own peculiar grammar: the associative editing style Roeg had twice already assayed with Antony Gibbs found its justification in a narrative constructed around premonitions and reminiscences. Based on a Du Maurier story, it pursues its themes of 'seeing' and 'searching' with single-minded relish through the labyrinth of some wintry Venice byways, and deploys half-glimpsed truths and shock set pieces in a manner which prefigured the Omen films. Whether viewed as an occult thriller or a horror movie with a grief-stricken fall guy, it remains one of the acknowledged masterpieces of British movie-making.
Country: GB
Technical: col 110m
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie
Synopsis:
An architect working on the restoration of a Venetian church takes his wife with him to Venice after they lose their daughter in a drowning accident at their house. There, after contact with a medium, she becomes happier and more reconciled to their child's death, which in turn makes him suspicious and uneasy.
Review:
A film with its own special atmosphere and its own peculiar grammar: the associative editing style Roeg had twice already assayed with Antony Gibbs found its justification in a narrative constructed around premonitions and reminiscences. Based on a Du Maurier story, it pursues its themes of 'seeing' and 'searching' with single-minded relish through the labyrinth of some wintry Venice byways, and deploys half-glimpsed truths and shock set pieces in a manner which prefigured the Omen films. Whether viewed as an occult thriller or a horror movie with a grief-stricken fall guy, it remains one of the acknowledged masterpieces of British movie-making.
Country: GB
Technical: col 110m
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie
Synopsis:
An architect working on the restoration of a Venetian church takes his wife with him to Venice after they lose their daughter in a drowning accident at their house. There, after contact with a medium, she becomes happier and more reconciled to their child's death, which in turn makes him suspicious and uneasy.
Review:
A film with its own special atmosphere and its own peculiar grammar: the associative editing style Roeg had twice already assayed with Antony Gibbs found its justification in a narrative constructed around premonitions and reminiscences. Based on a Du Maurier story, it pursues its themes of 'seeing' and 'searching' with single-minded relish through the labyrinth of some wintry Venice byways, and deploys half-glimpsed truths and shock set pieces in a manner which prefigured the Omen films. Whether viewed as an occult thriller or a horror movie with a grief-stricken fall guy, it remains one of the acknowledged masterpieces of British movie-making.