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Genres:
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Horror /
Mystery /
Thriller /
Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Nicolas Roeg
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Actors:
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Massimo Serato,
Leopoldo Trieste,
David Tree,
Giorgio Trestini,
Clelia Matania,
Ann Rye,
Nicholas Salter,
Sharon Williams,
Bruno Cattaneo,
Adelina Poerio,
Julie Christie,
Donald Sutherland,
Hilary Mason,
Renato Scarpa
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Duration:
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110 min.
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Rating:
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(7.5/10)183
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Plot Summary:
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Nicolas Roeg's third peel--after the brash PERFORMANCE (1970) and ruminative WALKABOUT (1971)--is a haunting thriller that confirmed the big cheese's importance as a dutiful imaginary. Based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier, DON'T LOOK NOW follows a grieving English couple to Venice, where the close by continues to chivy them. John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his little woman Laura (Julie Christie) are in mourning for their young daughter, who drowned tragically selfish their nursing home. John takes a job in Venice so that the connect can leave of absence the days beyond recall behind, bu... t, unfortunately, the former times is not far forgotten. While John begins to see disturbing visions of a young broad in a red spread management through the Venice streets, Laura learns from an elderly psychic that her silence is in vault danger. What follows is an mysterious, erotic indefiniteness that builds to a shockingly horrific climax. DON'T LOOK In this day is everyone of the most daring and leading shifting pictures of the 1970s. From Pino Donaggio's atmospheric score to Graeme Clifford's elliptical editing (exemplified in the blur's disgraceful sex scene), Roeg's film is a stylistic achievement. Sutherland and Christie are their typical unprecedented selves playing the bereaved, devastated couple.
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Don't Look Now
Chilling but moving classic of British cinema. Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland star as a couple who move to Venice after the death of their daughter, only to encounter forebodings of death amid its dank off-season canals
Architectural restoration expert John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his wife Laura (Julie Christie), grieving over the sudden drowning of their daughter Christine (Sharon Williams), take a working holiday in Venice.
While John busies himself with his work, Christine meets up with middle-aged sisters Heather (Hilary Mason) and Wendy (Clelia Matani). Although blind, Heather claims to 'see' Christine. Furthermore, Heather claims that Christine is trying to warn the Baxters. Certainly John's work manhandling gargoyles and climbing shaky sc...
A film to watch - in other words, do look now!.
This a film that requires, but rewards, close watching. It?s a film really about coincidence and fate, about the significance of little things in the greater course of lives, and whether, with hindsight, events are predestined or, well, just accidental.
It is not a horror film or thriller in any conventional sense, but it does makes effective use of a semi-deserted, out-of season Venice to create an edgy and disquieting, atmosphere. Against this backdrop, a young couple are forced to revisit the loss of their young daughter by an eccentric pair of middle aged ladies, one of whom claims to be blessed with second sight, and to have seen their dead child sitting happily with her parents as they dined.
The events that flow from this (or perhaps this meeting is just a preordained ...
Don't Look Now
A superbly chilling composition in the supernatural, adapted from Daphne du Maurier's shortened scoop fro a yoke, shattered...
Don't Look Now
Architectural restoration expert John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his chain Laura (Julie Christie), grieving over the surprising drowning of their daughter Christine (Sharon Williams), take a working holiday in Venice. While John busies himself with his make excited, Christine meets up with midst-ancient sisters Heather (Hilary Mason) and Wendy (Clelia Matani). Although blind, Heather claims to 'assure' Christine. Furthermore, Heather claims that Christine is trying to caution the Baxters. Certainly John's apply manhandling gargoyles and climbing shaky scaffolds isn't entirely danger-free. Also, the discernment of foreboding is masterfully cranked-up at near the validation of a mysterious iceman working in the bishopric and by the disorientation of premonit...
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