
John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters' daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seeing their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola.... (Full plot summary below)
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John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters' daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seeing their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola.
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| Martha's Vineyard Times (Massachusetts)Niki Pattonunending suspense -- intelligent and crisp |
| Empire MagazineAdam SmithOne of the definitive mystery chillers of all time. Poignant, beautiful and devastating. |
| The DissolveScott TobiasDon’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. |
| Electric SheepJohn BleasdaleIt is a messy examination of entropy: things fall and fall apart and we try to restore what can't be repaired and recover what has already been irretrievably lost. |
| Little White LiesAnton BitelLike some manic slasher on the loose, Nic Roeg cuts compulsively, severing the natural arteries between cause and effect to expose a more irrational kind of narrative continuum...a true classic, worth looking at not just now but long into the future. |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin PutmanDon't Look Now brilliantly portrays the loves and losses we all experience, our here and now dictated by the fallibility of human nature and the cruelties of time. |
| Film4Daniel EtheringtonMany of the subtle, jarring thrills come in the editing, which renders the notion of foresight explicit but still mysterious. |
| BBC.comDavid WoodWith Sutherland and Christie in fine form it all adds up to one of Roeg's finest films and an undeniably key work in British cinema. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezIt 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. |
| Seanax.comSean AxmakerThe imagery is beautiful, to be sure, but also eerie and alienating and discomforting. |