19.1.11

don't look now (1973)


"This one who's blind. She's the one that can see."
Laura and John Baxter (Julie Christie & Donald Sutherland) suffer a tragedy when their daughter drowns. To try and work through their loss the couple take a job restoring a Venitian church. Whilst he works, she starts a friendship with a psychic who claims to be able to contact Laura's child. Meanwhile John keeps glimpsing an elusive figure in the narrow streets, a dwarf woman in a red coat...
Famous for its naturalistic sex scene. This builds an unsettling atmosphere around the tragedy of a childs death and the parents subsequent grief, interwined is the serial killer sub-plot, with its faintly ludicrus reveal.

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