Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now

classified 15

part of The Balance of Things: the Cinematic Imagination of Nic Roeg

Film

Please note: This was screened in July 2019

Director
Nicolas Roeg
Cast
Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason
Details
110 mins, 1973, UK | Italy
Primary language
English

If ever evidence was to be presented for filmmaking as a unique art form then Roeg's masterpiece Don't Look Now, a film about love and grief wrapped up in a psychological thriller, could be used to mount the case.

Adapted from a Daphne Du Maurier short story, the film points to Roeg's growing interest in the otherworldly, the mysterious and co-incidence as well as his increasing ability to suspend plot and narrative through the choreography of editing. The opening sequence is perhaps the purest form of Roeg's visual storytelling sensibility. He lays out all the emotional and thematic elements of the film in a tour de force of cinematic expression with powerful emotional impact. The rest of the film resonating with the loss of the child and grief of the parents (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie).

Don't Look Now holds in sublime balance the tenderness of a mature relationship - the celebrated love scene its emotional heart - stretched by the growing unease of a death foretold. An out of season Venice echoes the film itself: haunting and haunted, mysterious and timeless.

A brand new 4K digital restoration c/o STUDIOCANAL


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