Don't Look Now (15)

Nicolas Roeg’s dazzling occult thriller follows the efforts of grieving couple John and Laura Baxter (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) to recover from their daughter’s drowning death by heading to – irony alert – Venice. Sutherland and Christie (both terrifically naturalistic) are also shadowed by a blind clairvoyant who insists she’s in touch with their daughter from beyond the grave. Roeg builds a potent sense of dread, culminating in a shocking climax guaranteed to instill you with a lifelong fear of small people in shiny red macs.

DVD Extras:

The most significant extra on this Special Edition is a Roeg commentary, in which the director frustrates with his meandering and occasionally baffling conversational style. Patient prodding by film critic Adam Smith wrings out a few nuggets, but mostly Roeg sounds like he’d rather be scraping gum off the pavements outside instead of sitting in a DVD commentary booth, resulting in a painfully protracted listening experience. Still, Roeg’s recalcitrance doesn’t detract from his film’s unsettling and enduring genius.

Director commentary
Making Of featurette

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