Synopsis
While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
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Cast
- Julie ChristieLaura Baxter
- Donald SutherlandJohn Baxter
- Hilary MasonHeather
- Massimo SeratoBishop Barbarrigo
- Clelia MataniaWendy
- Renato ScarpaInspector Longhi
- Giorgio TrestiniWorkman
- Leopoldo TriesteHotel Manager
- David TreeAnthony Babbage
- Ann RyeMandy Babbage
Recommendations
- 100
CineVue
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
Chicago Sun-Times
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
Empire
One of the definitive mystery chillers of all time. Poignant, beautiful and devastating. - 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 Guardian
Sutherland and Christie are an overwhelmingly convincing married couple. - 100
Time Out
A superbly chilling essay in the supernatural. - 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 Dissolve
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.
