Don't Look Now (2002)
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Director:Nicolas Roeg
Studio:Paramount
Rating:4
Rated:R
Date Added:2007-02-15
ASIN:B000069I0A
UPC:0097360870442
Price:14.98
Genre:Mystery & Suspense
Release:2002-03-09
Location:0412
Duration:110
Picture Format:Widescreen
Features:Anamorphic
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Nicolas Roeg  ...  (Director)
  ...  (Writer)
 
Julie Christie  ...  
Donald Sutherland  ...  
Hilary Mason  ...  
Clelia Matania  ...  
Massimo Serato  ...  
Renato Scarpa  ...  
Giorgio Trestini  ...  
Leopoldo Trieste  ...  
David Tree  ...  
Ann Rye  ...  
Nicholas Salter  ...  
Sharon Williams  ...  
Bruno Cattaneo  ...  
Adelina Poerio  ...  
Summary: 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