Don't Look Now
Nicolas Roeg
(1973)
While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
Don't Look Now (Original Film Soundtrack)
Cast
Crew
Hook
The killer is elegant. The victims beautiful. The violence operatic. This is giallo at its most committed — atmosphere so dense it becomes its own kind of threat.
Identity
The intimate love scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie generated considerable controversy and speculation upon the film's release, with persistent rumors that the scene depicted real intercourse, claims that both actors have consistently denied. Don't Look Now received strong critical acclaim upon its release in 1973, with reviewers praising Roeg's formally audacious direction, the performances of Sutherland and Christie, and the film's deeply felt emotional and psychological complexity.
Collector Focus
The red mackintosh, the Venetian canals, and Nicolas Roeg's fractured editing create one of horror's most distinctive visual identities. The film's ambiguity and formal craft attract collectors who value cinema at its most unsettling — every piece of associated material carries that weight.
Context
Directed by Nicolas Roeg and adapted from du Maurier's story by Allan Scott and Chris Bryant, the film was a British-Italian co-production shot almost entirely on location in Venice in the autumn of 1972. Don't Look Now received strong critical acclaim upon its release in 1973, with reviewers praising Roeg's formally audacious direction, the performances of Sutherland and Christie, and the film's deeply felt emotional and psychological complexity. While its box-office performance was modest, the film has since grown enormously in critical stature and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest British films and one of the finest horror films ever made.
