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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.
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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.
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One of the definitive mystery chillers of all time. Poignant, beautiful and devastating.
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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.
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Sutherland and Christie are an overwhelmingly convincing married couple.
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A superbly chilling essay in the supernatural.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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One of the most dynamic and radical British films ever made.
