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  Review by IHE 20

  What the

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  Review by Aaron ★★★★½ 58

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Part of Hoop-Tober

  “The churches belong to God, but he doesn’t seem to care about them. Does he have other priorities? We have stopped listening.”

  Denial

  The little girl in the red coat ran down the Venetian alleyway. She ducked around a corner and out of view. She...she couldn’t be Christine (Sharon Williams), could she? Christine had been dead for...how long had it been? It hardly mattered. She had always been dead. She had always been right next to them. Laughing and smiling in her little red coat, lungs filling with water like the canals, submerging like the buildings of this sinking Italian ruin.

  But Heather (Hilary Mason) sees her. She has the second sight. She and Wendy (Clelia Matania)…

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  Review by PTAbro ★★★★½ 10

  For me, the most terrifying scene in Don't Look Now is a testament to Nicolas Roeg's direction, Scott and Bryant's script, and Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie's skill as actors as the scene itself is nowhere near traditionally frightening, and out of context seems almost bland and/or relieving. The scene in question occurs after Sutherland's Baxter chases what he thinks to be his wife across Venice, only to call home to England and find she had arrived safe and sound earlier that day. The scene was terrifying not in that I wondered what kind of phantom he had seen, but in the absolute strangeness of the performances across the phone lines. Christie's voice is too-assuring and virtually prattles on that…

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 16

  Don't you love it when a film completely brings its respective story into full focus? Don't Look Now, for much of its run-time, was meandering and boring at points. I found it hard to stay invested into the story, but there was always a new development to make sure I didn't turn it off. And then, the final 10 minutes happened....

  I don't think I've had an opinion of a film change so fast. Truly, as Don't Look Now had its end credits rolling, I was unsettled beyond belief. Eyes darting, hearing every sound, seeing every shadow, sensing every presence; The only cure for how freaking scared I was as a result of the film was sleep.

  So, here I…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★ 8

  "If the world is round, why is a frozen lake flat?"

  I can't get a grip on why this has never worked for me. Perhaps its phantasmagoria is too grounded, too rooted in a very pragmatic British skepticism. Even given all the curlicue editing and repeated motifs, I don't think it ever truly succumbs to irrationality. Its final twist never seems unexpected or out-of-balance to me. I keep wanting it to go truly over the edge. It's all my problem, apparently.

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  Review by Adam Nayman ★★★★★ 3

  This is the only movie I’m sure I’ll be putting on my Sight and Sound all time ballot, and knowing this has prompted me to re-examine my criteria (and maybe rewatch Don’t Look Now, not that I ever need an excuse). 

  
   I can’t say that Don’t Look Now is the best film I’ve ever seen; I don’t even think it’s flawless. The long section after Julie Christie goes back to England and Sutherland skulks around in between meetings with the local authorities is finally essential to Roeg’s structure, but it’s draggy compared to the amazingly pressurized scenes that precede it; I personally love the staging of the finale, but enough other people find it lacking or laughable that I have…

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  Review by sarah squirm ★★★★ 1

  is the city of Venice trying to have sex with me

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★½ 4

  This has got to be one of the best ghost stories ever made. It is not scary, but has an unsettling atmosphere as it doesn't intend to scare you, but to make you part of a man's desperate attempt to make sense of a situation he doesn't (want to) understand.

  Firmly rooted in realism, Roeg tells a tale of grief and love. The strength of this story lies in the fact that Sutherland and Christie portray a couple that comes across as genuine. Their predicament is easy to sympathise with and to invest in, granting us an emotional connection which in turn automatically makes us part of their plight. Feeling so connected to a story as unsettling and intriguing as…

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  Review by feat. dante from the dmc series ★★★

  me, knowing full well that donald and kiefer sutherland are related: wow this fella sure looks an awful lot like kiefer sutherland

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  Review by Branson Reese

  Chilling to see how an adult handles the theme of grief through the lens of horror. Would've been badass if any of the 900 movies that tried the same trick took the lesson of this movie to not beat your audience over the head with it and instead let it just seep up through the cracks. But that's life I guess. It was probably pretty hard to make this movie or at least to live the kind of life that would lead up to making this movie.

  Lotta reviews on here saying this demands a rewatch and I guess I get what you mean but I think it's to the film's credit that I feel pretty "set" on this one…

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  Review by Stewie Griffin ★★★★★ 24

  an esoteric, metaphysical study contemplating on mortality and grief as one, ‘Don’t Look Now’ adverses the average inductors of cinematic displaying by exonerating the audience of any sort of refutes until the indubitably mesmerising finale, which is masterfully foreshadowed, juxtapositioning disbelief and recognition upon the viewer simultaneously. and even though the engrossingly transfixing conclusion to the film asserts reassurance, some questions remain (purposefully) unanswered.

  this ingredient is utilised at the movie’s advantage with such masterful manures - as in order to be thoroughly and utterly engulfed into the hypnotically pernicious actuality ‘Don’t Look Now’ embellishes, the audience must feel the unforgiving need for the ongoing clues made visible by the precise direction to be acknowledged, answered. the movie though, no…

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 1

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  Don't chase your past.