Nicolas Roeg's third film--after the brash PERFORMANCE (1970) and meditative WALKABOUT (1971)--is a haunting thriller that confirmed the director's status as a true visionary. Based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier, DON'T LOOK NOW follows a grieving English couple to Venice, where the past continues to plague them. John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his wife Laura (Julie Christie) are in mourning for their young daughter, who drowned tragically near their home. John takes a job in Venice so that the couple can leave the past behind, but, unfortunately, the past is not easily forgotten. While John begins to see unsettling visions of a young girl in a red coat running through the Venice streets, Laura learns from an elderly psychic that her husband is in grave danger. What follows is an eerie, erotic mystery that builds to a shockingly horrific climax.

DON'T LOOK NOW is one of the most daring and influential motion pictures of the 1970s. From Pino Donaggio's atmospheric score to Graeme Clifford's elliptical editing (exemplified in the film's notorious sex scene), Roeg's film is a stylistic achievement. Sutherland and Christie are their typical phenomenal selves playing the bereaved, devastated couple.

Director Nicolas Roeg's DON'T LOOK NOW is a psychological horror film about a couple who take a trip to Venice after the tragic drowning of their daughter. There the father continues to be haunted by glimpses of the little, red-coated girl darting around street corners.

According to Hollywood lore, the sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie was not fabricated.

Filmed in Hertfordshire and Shepperton Studios, England, and Venice, Italy.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - English, French
Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Original Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection

Donald Sutherland: Canadian Actor
Julie Christie: British actress, DR. ZHIVAGO, HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Hilary Mason: Actress/"Dolls"

Nicolas Roeg: Director, PERFORMANCE (1970), DON'T LOOK NOW (1974)

Allan Scott: Screenwriter/Producer; BEHIND THE LINES (1997)

Chris Bryant: 

"...One of the most dynamic and radical British films ever made..."
"...Nicolas Roeg's 1973 film remains one of the great horror masterpieces working not with fright, which is easy, but with dread, grief and apprehension..."
"Roeg's masterly adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's story is as much a meditation on grief as a conventional horror pic..."