Don't Look Now is a British-Italian 1973 thriller/drama movie directed by Nicolas Roeg presented on Blu-ray.
A hypnotic tale of love, death and the most startling memories in between, Don't Look Now is a controversial thriller from British visionary Nicolas Roeg (The Man Who Fell To Earth, Performance). It is a time of sadness and reflection for British couple John (Donald Sutherland, The Hunger Games) and Laura Baxter (Julie Christie, Doctor Zhivago) as together they struggle to come to terms with their daughter's accidental drowning. To help ease their pain and remove them from their sombre surrounds, John accepts an assignment in Venice, Italy where he is engaged to restore works at an ancient church. Comfortable in their new surrounds they encounter two elderly sisters, Heather and Wendy (Hilary Mason and Clelia Matania) who effect a change destined to shatter their new found equanimity. One of the sisters, a blind medium, claims to be able to reunite the couple with the spirit of their departed daughter, warning them of impending danger. Whilst Laura is intrigued, John remains sceptical but is forced to reconsider his position when he begins to have his own intensely haunting visions of the past. Based on a short fiction by Daphne du Maurier (The Birds, Rebecca), Nicolas Roeg's spine-tingling psychological thriller is a daring work of intensity and formidable depth in the chilling tradition of The Shining and The Sixth Sense.
Special Features
- Audio Commentary with director Nicolas Roeg
- Introduction by Alan Jones, author of the Rough Guide To Horror
- Nothing Is As It Seems
- Compressed Version of Don't Look Now (made by Danny Boyle for BAFTA tribute)
- Interviews with: Danny Boyle, Screenwriter/Producer Allan Scott and Donald Sutherland
Trailer
Awards
- Nominated Best Direction Nicolas Roeg (BAFTA Awards 1974)
- Nominated Best Film (BAFTA Awards 1974)
- Nominated Best Actress Julie Christie (BAFTA Awards 1974)
- Nominated Best Actor Donald Sutherland (BAFTA Awards 1974)
- 4 other nominations, one win.
Don't Look Now Movie Reviews
“It's a ghost story; it's a meditation on time, memory and the poignancy of married love. And it's a masterpiece.” Guardian
“[Don't Look Now] takes the viewer on a winding, unpredictable trip that starts as a meditation on grief and ends as a supernatural thriller.” ReelViews
“That dwarf in a red raincoat will fry your nerves.” Rolling Stone
“Many of the subtle, jarring thrills come in the editing, which renders the notion of foresight explicit but still mysterious.” Film 4
“Don't Look Now uses the occult and the inexplicable as Henry James did: to penetrate the subconscious, to materialize phantoms from the psyche.” Time Magazine