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Don't Look Now - Special Edition [1973]
from Optimum Home Entertainment
starring Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary Mason
directed by Nicolas Roeg

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

Nicolas Roeg's third film - after the brash PERFORMANCE (1970) and meditative WALKABOUT (1971) - is a haunting thriller that confirmed the director's status as a true visionary. Based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier, DON'T LOOK NOW follows a grieving English couple to Venice, where the past continues to plague them. John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his wife Laura (Julie Christie) are in mourning for their young daughter, who drowned tragically near their home. John takes a job in Venice so that the couple can leave the past behind, but, unfortunately, the past is not easily forgotten. While John begins to see unsettling visions of a young girl in a red coat running through the Venice streets, Laura learns from an elderly psychic that her husband is in grave danger. What follows is an eerie, erotic mystery that builds to a shockingly horrific climax. DON'T LOOK NOW is one of the most daring and influential motion pictures of the 1970s. From Pino Donaggio's atmospheric score to Graeme Clifford's elliptical editing (exemplified in the film's notorious sex scene), Roeg's film is a stylistic achievement. Sutherland and Christie are their typical phenomenal selves playing the bereaved, devastated couple.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Completely ruined by the soundtrack
  Well this classic thriller certainly looks good, the editing is crisp and the mood sombre and threatening BUT, and it's a huge but, the film is completely ruined by the appalling soundtrack: only one word in ten is clear. The actors' words swoop, boom and drop to an inaudible whisper. It sounds as if it was recorded on a faulty dictaphone in a public lavatory. No reputable company would release this and expect people to pay good money to buy it. I cannot imagine what Nicholas Roeg's reaction would be if he... more info

• Gothic Masterpiece
  Hitchcock used an example to explain the difference between surprise and suspense. If people are seated at a table and a bomb explodes, that is surprise. If they are seated at a table, and you know there's a bomb under the table attached to a ticking clock, but they continue to play cards -- that's suspense. There's a bomb under "Dont Look Now" for excruciating stretches of time.
  I was expecting this slow-moving movie to descend into routine shock and horror movie,but it doesn't. Most of the movie is... more info

• what the hell happened to the soundtrack?
  A classic film, doubtless. But as for this DVD - well, the picture quality is lovely, but the sound is AWFUL - harsh, trebly, distorted! Is that really the best available audio track for this film?! What went wrong? It really is poor enough to make the dialogue hard to understand at times - and to make things worse, the DVD has no subtitle option.

• Definitely Do Look Now
  Why Don't look now is frequently referred to as a horror film is something I've never understood. "Psychological thriller' is perhaps more accurate although the horror of losing a child, which is the basis for this superb film, is indisputable. The director Nicholas Roeg referred to it as 'an exercise in film grammar', and that is probably the most accurate description.
  This film had a profound effect on me when I first saw it on release and its power has never left me, in fact it's still up therre in... more info

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