100
Time Out
A superbly chilling essay in the supernatural.
Don't Look Now
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- United Kingdom,
- Italy
- 1973
- · 110m
Director
Nicolas Roeg
Cast
Julie Christie,
Donald Sutherland,
Hilary Mason,
Clelia Matania,
Massimo Serato,
Renato Scarpa
Genre
Drama,
Horror,
Thriller
Laura and John, a married couple who travel to Venice following the loss of their daughter, meet two mysterious sisters — one of whom, a psychic, gives them a message from beyond. At first, John scoffs and ignores her warning, but soon he begins to have strange sightings of his own…
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What are critics saying?
100
The New Yorker
The film has an itchy grasp on the uncanny, much like other breakthrough thrillers of its day, among them “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Exorcist.” But neither of those movies boasts a four-and-a-half-minute sex scene so jarringly real-looking that it was rumored to be unsimulated.
100
The Dissolve by Scott Tobias
Don’t Look Now culminates in a shock for the ages, the grim payoff to Roeg’s editing scheme. But it would all be mere supernatural hokum if the film weren’t so persistently insightful about the gnawing pain of losing a child, and how the mind can keep that wound from scarring over... It would all be unbearably sad, if it weren’t chilling to the bone.
100
Los Angeles Times
Very few pieces of fiction have been so totally improved in adaptation. The original novelette was clever but thin; the 1973 film is one of the greatest real horror films ever made.
100
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
Sutherland and Christie are an overwhelmingly convincing married couple.
100
Empire by Anna Smith
One of the definitive mystery chillers of all time. Poignant, beautiful and devastating.
100
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 film remains one of the great horror masterpieces, working not with fright, which is easy, but with dread, grief and apprehension.
100
CineVue by Alasdair Bayman
Revolving around the omnipresent theme of grief (and adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s short story), the film composes a ghostly melancholic reflection on this profound human emotion.
100
Total Film by Staff (Not Credited)
One of the most dynamic and radical British films ever made.
100
Slant Magazine by Ed Gonzalez
It figures that the sex scene from Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now has become more legendary than the film itself. Forget that Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland were off-screen lovers at the time, the film’s infamous bedroom romp is every bit as devastating and organic as anything else in the film.
100
Los Angeles Times by Andy Klein
Very few pieces of fiction have been so totally improved in adaptation. The original novelette was clever but thin; the 1973 film is one of the greatest real horror films ever made.
100
Time Out by Staff (Not Credited)
A superbly chilling essay in the supernatural.
100
The New Yorker by Michael Schulman
The film has an itchy grasp on the uncanny, much like other breakthrough thrillers of its day, among them “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Exorcist.” But neither of those movies boasts a four-and-a-half-minute sex scene so jarringly real-looking that it was rumored to be unsimulated.
91
The A.V. Club by A.A. Dowd
Singularly haunting.
40
The New York Times by Vincent Canby
A fragile soap bubble of a horror film. It has a shiny surface that reflects all sorts of colors and moods, but after watching it for a while, you realize you're looking not into it, but through it and out the other side. The bubble doesn't burst, it slowly collapses, and you may feel, as I did, that you've been had.Not only do you probably have better things to do, but so, I'm sure, do most of the people connected with the film.
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