Don't Look Now

DVD Features:

Audio:

• Dolby Digital Mono - English, French
• Subtitles - English - Optional

Additional Release Material:

• Original Theatrical Trailer

Interactive Features:

• Interactive Menus
• Scene Selection

Description by OLDIES.com:

Working with elements of the traditional horror genre - second sight, ESP, warnings from the dead, a mad killer - and cinematography of disquieting beauty with a dreamlike sense of dislocation, director Nicolas Roeg weaves a fabric of anxiety that questions all reality. The evocative use of the back streets of Venice is a sinister participant in the action based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. This intensely erotic and macabre film boasts outstanding performances by Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland.

Product Description:

Nicolas Roeg's third film--after the brash PERFORMANCE (1970) and meditative WALKABOUT (1971)--is a haunting thriller that confirmed the director's status as a true visionary. Based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier, DON'T LOOK NOW follows a grieving English couple to Venice, where the past continues to plague them. John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his wife Laura (Julie Christie) are in mourning for their young daughter, who drowned tragically near their home. John takes a job in Venice so that the couple can leave the past behind, but, unfortunately, the past is not easily forgotten. While John begins to see unsettling visions of a young girl in a red coat running through the Venice streets, Laura learns from an elderly psychic that her husband is in grave danger. What follows is an eerie, erotic mystery that builds to a shockingly horrific climax.

DON'T LOOK NOW is one of the most daring and influential motion pictures of the 1970s. From Pino Donaggio's atmospheric score to Graeme Clifford's elliptical editing (exemplified in the film's notorious sex scene), Roeg's film is a stylistic achievement. Sutherland and Christie are their typical phenomenal selves playing the bereaved, devastated couple.

Plot Synopsis:

Director Nicolas Roeg's DON'T LOOK NOW is a psychological horror film about a couple who take a trip to Venice after the tragic drowning of their daughter. There the father continues to be haunted by glimpses of the little, red-coated girl darting around street corners.

Plot Keywords:

Death | Disturbing | Essential Cinema | Ghosts | Horror | Mystery | Psychodrama | Recommended | Theatrical Release

Production Notes:

• According to Hollywood lore, the sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie was not fabricated.
• Filmed in Hertfordshire and Shepperton Studios, England, and Venice, Italy.

Cast and Crew: