Don't Look Now (1973)

Release date: 1973-01-01
Country: UK|Italy
Language: English|Italian
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Production Co: Casey Productions, Eldorado Films, D.L.N. Ventures Partnership
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Rating: 7.3/10
Length: 1h 50min

Storyline

John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters' daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seeing their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola.

Plot Keywords

sex scene, female frontal nudity, venice italy, giallo, slow motion scene, italy, dwarf, city, villain, briton abroad, murder of husband, unhappy ending, death, british horror, murder victim, widow, slashed to death, bleeding to death, married couple, scaffold

Short Review

There is something molten about the whole movie. That's its magic: from the colours that shift and bleed in a transparency of a stained-glass window - Sutherland's character is a restorer of churches - to the famous, graphic love scene between the stars.