Quartile rating: 7.5/10 · 1 rating
While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
Don't Look Now is a landmark of atmospheric horror-thriller filmmaking. Nicolas Roeg's fractured, non-linear editing style — intercutting past, present, and future with stunning visual rhymes — is genuinely singular and deeply influential. Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie deliver emotionally raw, naturalistic performances, including the famous and controversial intimate scene. The Venice setting is rendered as labyrinthine and foreboding, with Roeg and Anthony Richmond's cinematography turning canals and alleyways into a geography of dread. The ending remains one of cinema's great gut-punch reveals, recontextualizing the entire film with brutal elegance. The plot itself, while compelling, is deliberately elliptical and occasionally meandering in its middle section, which keeps it from a top mark — but this is a film whose form IS its content, making it one of the most distinctive works of 1970s cinema.