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Don't Look Now

Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie mesmerize as a married couple on an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences. A masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg, Dont Look Now, adapted from a story by Daphne du Maurier, is a brilliantly disturbing tale of the supernatural, as renowned for its innovative editing and haunting cinematography as its naturalistic eroticism and unforgettable climax and denouement, one of the great endings in horror history.

"Exquisitely designed, each scene is pierced with the color redcurtains, scarves, ink, boots, long johns on the lineconnecting with the daughters red slicker, and the hooded figure scurrying through the Venice night." - Film Comment

"Roeg makes brilliant use of Venices architecture and design, rendering the city a fantastic, maze-like world. (The eerie, mood-enhancing score is by Pino Donaggio, who would go on to be Brian De Palmas regular composer.) The leads are superb, playing off each other brilliantly and sexily; the films centerpiece is a complexly edited sex scene that aroused no small controversy upon first release." - Cine File

"[Its] arguably Roegs most compassionate film More than a crisply told ghost story, Dont Look Now is a film that explores the ways in which we so easily misread the obvious signs towards happiness as we go on with the business of living. In most of his films, Roeg treats this very human tendency with bleak fatalism, but here it seems almost heroic." - Senses of Cinema