DIRECTOR: Nicolas Roeg
PRODUCER: Peter Katz ​    
PRODUCTION CO: Warner Bros
​​SCREENPLAY: Casey Productions, Eldorado Films
PHOTOGRAPHY: Anthony Richmond
EDITOR: Graeme Clifford
MUSIC: Pino Donaggio
WITH:  Julie Christie (Laura Baxter), Donald Sutherland (John Baxter), Hilary Mason (Heather), Clelia Matania (Wendy), Massimo Serato (Bishop Barbarrigo), Renato Scarpa (Inspector Longhi), Adelina Poerio (Dwarf)  

REVIEWS

“Based on Daphne du Maurier’s short story, Don’t Look Now opens with the death of a child, but the tragedy is that of her parents, John (Donald Sutherland) and Laura Baxter (Julie Christie). Relocating from the English countryside to wintry Venice, where John is restoring artwork in a church, the couple try in their different ways to recover from the loss. There is tension between them, as she falls in with two peculiar sisters — one a blind clairvoyant — and he catches glimpses of a figure who resembles his dead daughter. Director Nicolas Roeg composes an uncanny masterpiece of colour (notably red) and fractured editing, expressing the characters’ psychology and experience to stunning effect. The sex and death scenes have seldom been matched.”

– Sight & Sound


“Time collapses in Don’t Look Now. The past and future are folded into the present. Anyone who has seen Roeg’s work from this peak period of his career will recognize his intuitive, semi-experimental editing and how much it pushed the boundaries of commercial cinema. Yet there’s something special about the way certain patterns and visual motifs keep cycling through this film, a reminder that grief can strike at any time for John and Laura, no matter how far they run from it.”

– Scott Tobias, Guardian

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Dunedin
Wednesday, 04 March, 7.30pm

Tauranga
Wednesday, 18 March, 6.00pm

Nelson
Wednesday, 08 April, 6.00pm

Hamilton
Monday, 11 May, 6.30pm

Wellington  
Monday, 25 May, 6.00pm

Wellington  
Monday, 25 May, 8.30pm

Palmerston North
​Wednesday, 03 June, 6.00pm

Whanganui
Monday, 29 June, 7.00pm

Queenstown
Tuesday, 18 August, 8.00pm

Timaru
​Tuesday, 15 September, 6.30pm

Canterbury
​Monday, 28 September, 7.00pm

​New Plymouth
Wednesday, 14 October, 6.00pm

​Auckland
​Monday, 02 November, 6.15pm
70s THRILLERS >> ​