Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now is a pre-certed UK VHS by EMI on 1979 and re-realesed on 1980. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on April 1981 and the alternate sleeve has 'Star Selection' on the early 1980s.
==Description==
Daphne du Maurier, who provided Hitchcock with the idea for The Birds, set filmgoers'nerves on edge again with Don't Look Now (1973). Adapted from a short story of hers and directed by Nicolas Roeg, it's an eerie exercise on the theme of 'nothing is what it seems'. As the title suggests, the plot concerns the way we see things - in this case, 'second sight'. A young couple, played by Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, go to Venice after their child's sudden accidental death by drowning - he to work, she to rest, both to forget. A chance meeting with a clairvoyant puts an end to that. The medium gives the wife reassurance: the dead child is happy 'over there'. But to the husband she promises no peace of mind: on the contrary, only peril and maybe death. The couple's respective faith and scepticism are worked on by the prophecy until our own psychic alarm bells are set ringing. Weird events seem to thicken out of the gloom of a wintry, out-of-season Venice that shows its inhospitable face to the baffled pair. Critics generally hailed the film as 'brilliant'. They especially praised the disturbing way that Roeg, a former cameraman, invests images with the power of omens - so that a mermaid brooch recalls a drowned body and a child's red waterproof assumes the heightened emotion of a bloodstain. The film has some conventional thriller elements, but it's tone that presses on our apprehensions till we are ready to jump at what we imagine we see. Acting has seldom been so generously put at the service of a director. Even the love scene between Christie and Sutherland, one of the most powerful in recent cinema, not only has a sensual impact but makes an ironic point about the different natures people display depending on whether they are clothed or naked. The whole film is tuned to a waveband of subtle meanings that oblige us - notwithstanding the title - to look (and listen) with undivided attention. ALEXANDER WALKER
Actor 		Role
Julie Christie 		Laura Baxter
Donald Sutherland		John Baxter
Hilary Mason 		Heather
Clelia Matania 		Wendy
Massimo Serato 		Bishop Barbarrigo
Renato Scarpa 		Inspector Longhi
Giorgio Trestini 		Workman
Leopoldo Trieste 		Hotel Manager
David Tree 		Anthony Babbage
Ann Rye 		Mandy Babbage
Nicholas Salter 		Johnny Baxter
Sharon Williams 		Christine Baxter
Bruno Cattaneo 		Detective Sabbione
Adelina Poerio 		Dwarf
A truly original film: superb psychological thriller, eerie horror story and much more - with one of the most powerful love scenes in modern cinema. When a little girl is accidentally drowned, her parents (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) go to Venice to forget .There they meet a strange clairvoyant who tells them their daughter is still very much alive - and gives them ominous messages from the grave. As their whole world starts to disintegrate around them, everyday objects turn into omens of doom, and ordinary events become terrifying glimpses into another dimension. The father begins a frantic search for his daughter, through the deserted canals and menacing alleys of Venice in winter... into a world where nobody can be sure of what is real and what is illusion... until the macabre shattering climax.
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