Don’t Look Now
1973, 110 min.
Directed by Nicolas Roeg, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason.

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.

This article appears in July 16 • 1999 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.