Don’t Look Now (1973)
83%RT Audience Score: 76%
Awards & Nominations: Won 1 BAFTA Award
1 win & 9 nominations total
Don’t Look Now patiently builds suspense with haunting imagery and a chilling score — causing viewers to feel Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie’s grief deep within
Don’t Look Now is a film that will make you want to look over your shoulder every five seconds. It’s a hauntingly beautiful masterpiece that will leave you feeling like you just went on a wild ride through Venice. The editing is so trippy that you’ll feel like you’re in a dream, or maybe a nightmare. But don’t worry, it’s worth it. Just make sure you don’t watch it alone in the dark.
Production Company(ies)
Igor Film Casbah Film
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Release Type
Filming Location(s)
Chiesa di San Nicolo dei Mendicoli, Campo San Nicolo, Dorsoduro, Venice, Veneto, Italy
MPAA / Certificate
R
Year of Release
1974
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Mono Dolby SR
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:1h 50m
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Language(s):English, Italian
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Dec 25, 1973 Original
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 10, 2015
Genre(s)
Mystery & Thriller
Keyword(s)
starring Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa, directed by Nicolas Roeg, written by Allan Scott, Chris Bryant, mystery, thriller, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Molly Haskell, Paul D Zimmerman, Cody Corrall, Tom Milne, Nigel Andrews, David Jenkins, MPAA rating R, produced by Peter Katz, grief, Venice, Italy, church restoration, psychic, haunting imagery, chilling score, symbolism, twist ending, omen, danger, emotional loss, blind psychic, foreign country, straightforward thriller, little tension
Worldwide gross: $114,156
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Budget and Earnings Details
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Donald Sutherland – John Baxter
Hilary Mason – Heather
Clelia Matania – Wendy
Massimo Serato – Bishop Barbarrigo
Renato Scarpa – Inspector Longhi
Director(s)
Nicolas Roeg
Writer(s)
Allan Scott, Chris Bryant
Producer(s)
Peter Katz
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Won 1 BAFTA Award
1 win & 9 nominations total
Academy Awards
All Critics (80) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (75) | Rotten (5)
It is a film in which everything seems to have been sacraficed for pictorial effect.
April 20, 2022
Molly Haskell
Village Voice
TOP CRITIC
Roeg, for all his artiness and tricks, succeeds in creating a dark and frightening experience unlike anything ever filmed.
February 10, 2022
Paul D. Zimmerman
Newsweek
TOP CRITIC
Don’t Look Now implements stylistic and oftentimes jarring editing techniques that alter the perception of what exactly is going on…
October 8, 2021
Cody Corrall
Chicago Reader
TOP CRITIC
[Puts] Nicolas Roeg right up at the top as a film-maker.
March 18, 2020
Tom Milne
Sight & Sound
TOP CRITIC
There is something molten about the whole movie. That’s its magic: from the colours that shift and bleed in a transparency of a stained-glass window – Sutherland’s character is a restorer of churches – to the famous, graphic love scene between the stars.
July 9, 2019 | Rating: 5/5
Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
TOP CRITIC
Every frame is calculated perfection.
July 9, 2019 | Rating: 4/5
David Jenkins
Little White Lies
TOP CRITIC
Don’t Look Now, the story of a couple holidaying in a moody, almost gothic version of Venice, will be fifty years old next year, but in some ways it is so far ahead of its time that it still feels like we’ve yet to catch up to it.
May 31, 2022
Catherine Bray
Film of the Week
Whether interpreted as a psychic thriller, a Gothic horror story, the blackest of comedies, or an intricate study of grief, Dont Look Now grows more complex with each viewing until it encompasses each of these qualities at once.
March 2, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
Brian Eggert
Deep Focus Review
…primarily an achievement in hallucinatory editing.
November 1, 2021 | Rating: 3/4
Josh Larsen
LarsenOnFilm
Roeg’s film isn’t just a chiller; it’s a profound study of love and grief too.
December 5, 2020
Jason Best
Movie Talk
A wonderfully compelling, incredibly astounding masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg, which yields new surprises with each successive viewing.
October 29, 2020 | Rating: 4.5/5
Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com
Thanks to the steady building of tension, the most innocuous activities could become catastrophic at any moment.
August 29, 2020 | Rating: 8/10
Mike Massie
Gone With The Twins…
Plot
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.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
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