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- 1973
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
- 1973
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
Summary A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
Directed By: Nicolas Roeg
Written By: Daphne Du Maurier, Allan Scott, Chris Bryant
- 1973
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
- 1973
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
Don't Look Now
6.9
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Summary A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
Directed By: Nicolas Roeg
Written By: Daphne Du Maurier, Allan Scott, Chris Bryant
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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96% Positive
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4% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
95
96% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
4% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
More a triumph of tone and texture than of storytelling....But what makes Don't Look Now one of the creepiest movies of all time is the artful way director Roeg leads us around blind corners and down dark alleys (both literally and figuratively), straddling the line between reality and mysticism. [4 May 2001, p.4]
With 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.
Nic Roeg here offers one of the most disconcerting portraits of otherworldliness ever seen on the screen.
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.
Time has tamed some of the terror and eroticism of Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, but it’s still a haunting thriller about guilt and the supernatural. What’s notable (more notable even than the much celebrated bedroom scene between Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, in which sex is displaced into memory even as it’s taking place) is that Roeg’s use of the death of a child as the focus of a horror film never feels exploitative.
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 38 User Ratings
6.9
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 38 User Ratings
6.9
66% Positive
25 Ratings
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24% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
11% Negative
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Awards
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
The Guardian's Best Films
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Reddit Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
