Don't Look Now (Roeg, 1973): Prince Charles Cinema, 6pm
This screening is part of the Horroctober season at the Prince Charles Cinema.
Time Out review:
A
superbly chilling essay in the supernatural, adapted from Daphne du
Maurier's short story about a couple, shattered by the death of their
small daughter, who go to Venice to forget. There, amid the hostile
silences of an off-season resort, they are approached by a blind woman
with a message of warning from the dead child; and half- hoping,
half-resisting, they are sucked into a terrifying vortex of time where
disaster may be foretold but not forestalled. Conceived in Nicolas
Roeg's usual imagistic style and predicated upon a series of ominous
associations (water, darkness, red, shattering glass), it's hypnotically
brilliant as it works remorselessly toward a sense of dislocation in
time; an undermining of all the senses, in fact, perfectly exemplified
by Donald Sutherland's marvellous Hitchcockian walk through a dark alley
where a banging shutter, a hoarse cry, a light extinguished at a
window, all recur as in a dream, escalating into terror the second time
round because a hint of something seen, a mere shadow, may have been the
dead child.
Tom Milne
Here is Mark Cousins’ introduction to the film in his Videodrome series from BBC TV.
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