BLU-RAY EDITION
1973
110 MINUTES
COLOR
MONAURAL
1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO
Released by STUDIOCANAL in 2019
Not used and both disks (Movie and Bonus Materials) are in perfect condition.
Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie mesmerize as a British married couple on an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous now experiences. A masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg, Don't Look Now, adapted from a story by Daphne du Maurier, is a brilliantly disturbing tale of the supernatural, as renowned for its innovative editing and haunting cinematography as its naturalistic eroticism and unforgettable climax and denouement, one of the great endings in horror history.
When Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now was released in Britain in 1973, it was the main feature on a double bill with Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man. While Hardy's Hammer Filmsish take on paganism on a Scottish island has achieved cult status, Roeg's extraordinary and enduring thriller is now frequently cited as one of the greatest of British films. In the early seventies, when even mainstream films could be fearless and experimental, smashing taboos and taunting the censors, cinema-going was a uniquely intense experience.
But Don't Look Now retains its power and mystery today thanks to Roeg's mastery of what Alfred Hitchcock famously called "pure cinema," manifest in his visual sleight of hand and above all in his refusal to be bound by the conventions of dialogue-driven narrative and simple chronology. All this has shaped a style that has justifiably come to be described as "Roegian."