Don't Look Now (1973)
Directed by Nicolas Roeg
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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Based on a short story by Daphne Du Maurier, whose works have also inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) and The Birds (1963), Don’t Look Now is a complex, challenging horror film, one that rewards greatly if you’re willing to give it the attention it deserves.
Based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier, the wordsmith whose works also fueled the Hitchcock classics Rebecca and The Birds, this stars Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland as Laura and John Baxter, a happily married couple who, reeling from the death of their daughter Christine, have temporarily settled in Venice so that John can assist in restoring an old church.
Director Roeg treads on Hitchcock territory with this Daphne Du Maurier ( Rebecca , The Birds ) story about a couple whose daughter has just drowned.
Based on a disturbing short story by the macabre Daphne Du Maurier (who also penned Rebecca and Don't Look Now), Hitch builds some truly amazing sequences that are as audacious as they are experimental.
It’s a wonder that Alfred Hitchcock didn’t lay claim to Daphne du Maurier’s short-story “Don’t Look Now.” Hitchcock’s successful 1963 adaptation of du Maruier’s “The Birds” proved a powerful follow-up to “Psycho” (1960).
The former has resulted in countless essays discussing in minute detail the elements that are unique and interesting about the way in which Roeg ( Walkabout ) filmed and assembled the movie.
Hollywood was cranking out honest-to-God masterpieces, or at least near masterpieces, on a regular basis, and aesthetes like Roeg (whose previous Walkabout is a similarly dreamlike evocation of time and place) were getting Hollywood-funded distribution for their unconventional imaginings of the metaphysical world.
Fresh from the success of his first two films (“Performance” 1970, and “Walkabout” 1971) Roeg cast international stars Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland as a married couple coming to grips with the death of their daughter.
It's rare when a filmmaker helms one genuine masterpiece in his lifetime, let alone two (and consecutively!), yet that was the case when Nicolas Roeg followed 1971's Walkabout with another motion picture equally as brilliant.
Made in between his memorable directorial debut, Performance, and his two subsequent films, Don't Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth (which have come to be recognized as his signature works), Walkabout is a bit of a lost work.