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Don't
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One of the most intriguing films of the 70's. Richly creative with wonderful use of colour and shades. Excellent performances. Deeply unsettling, quite brilliant psychological horror film about premontion and foresight. Don't Look Now contains a very strong undercurrent of dread……….a sense of impending doom and the players in the movie seem hurtling towards this doom with all the warning signs flashing around them, yet totally oblivouss and helpless to halt their slide to disaster. Director Roeg presents the most unromantic Venice on record. This city is not the city of charm and beauty, of elegance and style……..this is a city reeking of decay and corruption, a city stinking of rotting dank water and as grey and bleak as can be. This is the Venice of nightmares not of dreams or fantasy by any stretch of imagination. Here the canals and tributaries are full of a shadowy, lurking menace and literally, death. Roeg creates
a dark, utterly bleak kaleidoscopic view of surroundings, punctuated
with subtle and sometimes dramatically loud streaks of red. Its
very cleverly crafted and the editing is highly effective in adding
to the sense of discord and unease. Ultimately, the movie leaves
one devastated, and later while pondering, the puzzle fits into
place with chilling logic. A highly superior psychological thriller,
very well acted and directed………… nearly created quite a few waves
upon release due to its rather lengthy lovemaking scene. Considered
rather raunchy for the time, or any time for that matter. Nicolas
Roeg was reportedly rather disappointed that the "controversial"
scene didn't buy him more publicity as the supposed controversy
never really materialized as he had anticipated.
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