Reviews of Don't Look Now 1973
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''The skill of police artists is to make the living appear dead.''
Film #19 of The December Project
I first saw 'Don't Look Now' a couple of years back, I remember liking it quite a bit, but I quickly moved on and never really gave it a second thought. I was recently searching through Blu-Ray's on eBay and saw a copy of this film and decided to purchase it. The film had a much more emotional impact on me with…
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Even though the picture quality wasn't very good, the film still had an amazing look and feel to it. Shadows, fog, the colour red. Awesome. Although, for some reason, the sound quality on my copy was pretty lousy.. perhaps someone knows whether or not this is how the film is or if it was just my dvd..?
Donald Sutherland totally brings it and I completely loved Julie Christie.
Two favorite things about the film is the music, which is beautiful and haunting, and the editing. So great. Exceptional shit, I must say. -
Moody psychological horror film that is at once sad and unsettling. The film carries strong underlying themes of occultism and telekinetic communication, and focuses on a fear of the unknown. On a therapeutic and work-related trip to Venice, the Baxter's are shaken up after meeting a blind old woman who claims to see their dead daughter. This creates a rift in the marriage and things get increasingly stranger until the finale. Roeg's jazzy signature editing style ties symbols together, interweaving…
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This is a film that starts from frame one and heads right for the end of the line. Not much dilly-dally. Some aspects of it take a little while to shape up, but the whole thing moves easily enough and follows a fairly interesting track.
I didn't find this one as disturbing as others have, but I liked it. I had a hard time getting too invested in the characters and that's probably partly due to some of the odd…
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What a hell of a horror film. Nicholas Roeg is one of the most fascinating and inventive directors of his time. The camerawork here is just extraordinary; it creates tension in almost every single scene. Roeg creates a pace that is sharp and unsettling to a fault, and uses his Venice setting perfectly with shadows, streetlamps, dark walkways, and even the waterways, which is a troublesome barrier for our characters. The acting from Christie and Sutherland is brilliant. Immediately after watching it was one of my favorites.
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Nicholas Roeg's classic 70s horror film Don't Look Now is every bit as edgy, creepy and fantastic as I'd hoped. Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie are fantastic as a married couple mourning the death of their daughter and Venice proves to be an ugly, unsettling backdrop for their pain. Sutherland's performance is perhaps the best of his career, and Roeg's direction allows his eventual psychosis to subtly build up on screen.
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I don't think the huge amounts of praise heaped on this film are undeserved, as it is gorgeous, intense, and filled with great performances. Something about it just didn't connect with me, though...I was so prepared to love it, and I did at first, but there was something about it that I found unsatisfying. I suppose it was the ending, but I can't figure out why.
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This is #3 of My Thoughts on Horror Cinema list!
Every single element is perfectly placed in this movie. Since the initial seconds we are wrapped in this thick layer of immediacy, because the viewer already knows something wrong will succeed, as well as John knows this too. It’s from the rational perceptions by Donald Sutherland’s character we set a path to follow through the film’s length, but I venture to say that just this wouldn’t be enough without the…
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