Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now

1973, 110 min. Directed by Nicolas Roeg. Starring Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason.

REVIEWED By Marjorie Baumgarten, Thu., July 22, 1999

This is one of those movies that keeps on giving – its gothic moodiness is impossible to shake off. Julie Christie is at her most lumininescent and Donald Sutherland is at his most subdued as the parents of a drowned child who spend a wintry season in Venice chasing ghosts of their daughter and reasons to believe. Nic Roeg here offers one of the most disconcerting portraits of otherworldliness ever seen on the screen.

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Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg, Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason

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