from Eldorado Films / Paramount Pictures
Directed by
Nicolas Roeg
Starring
Julie Christie (Laura Baxter)
Donald Sutherland (John Baxter)
Hilary Mason (Heather)
Clelia Matania (Wendy)
Massimo Serato (Bishop Barbarrigo)
Renato Scarpa (Inspector Longhi)
Giorgio Trestini (Workman)
Leopoldo Trieste (Hotel Manager)
David Tree (Anthony Babbage)
Ann Rye (Mandy Babbage)
Nicholas Salter (Johnny Baxter)
Sharon Williams (Christine Baxter)
Bruno Cattaneo (Detective Sabbione)
Adelina Porrio (Dwarf)
Written by
Chris Bryant
Daphne Du Maurier (story)
Allan Scott
Original music by
Pino
Donaggio
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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
Don't
Look Now [DVD]
Don't
Look Now (BFI Modern Classics)
by Mark Sanderson
Don't
Look Now
by Daphne Du Maurier
The
Private World of Daphne Du Maurier
by Martin Shallcross
The
Films of Nicolas Roeg: Myth and Mind
by John Izod
Nicolas
Roeg Film by Film
by Scott Salwolke
The
BFI Companion to Crime
by Phil Hardy
Encyclopedia
Mysteriosa: A Comprehensive Guide to the Art of Detection in
Print, Film, Radio, and Television
by William L. Deandrea
Murder
on Tape: A Comprehensive Guide to Murder and Mystery on Video
by Ted Sennett
Thrillers:
Seven Decades of Classic Film Suspense
by John McCarty
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