Don't Look Now Movie Review
Don't Look Now Review

"Don't Look Now" Overview

Rating: R
1973
Cast and Crew
Director : Nicolas RoegProducer : Peter Katz,Frederick Muller,Steve Previn
Screenwiter : Chris Bryant,Allan Scott
Starring : Julie Christie,Donald Sutherland,Hilary Mason,Clelia Matania,Massimo Serato,Renato Scarpa
This extremely creepy mystery from the early 1970s makes your skin crawl with
its look into the aftermath of the death of a couple's daughter. Set in the
winter of Venice, the fog, darkness, and solitude are apt metaphors for the
mindsets of Christie and Sutherland, both of whom shine in this underseen pic.
Of note is the early-on love scene, reputedly so steamy because the two stars
got so carried away they actually did the deed.
Sex scene aside, Don't Look Now recalls recent fare as diverse as The Sixth
Sense, The Blair Witch Project, and Frantic -- with Christie communing with two
elderly psychics and Sutherland haunted by visions of his dead daughter's red
raincoat. Sutherland and Christie are phenomenal, leaving the Roegian
metaphysical mumbo jumbo in their wake as they show us how some real acting
gets done.
Now available on DVD, Don't Look Now should earn the audience it deserves.
Alas, the DVD is a straight affair -- no extras here aside from the original
trailer, and no answers as to what really went on in that infamous love scene...
Big bag o' bones.
Reviewer: Christopher Null





