Being Film #30 for Hooptober 2024

Something a little different. I thought I had reviewed this film before, and I did…15 years ago. It’s been sitting on a dead blog forever, and so in the interest of preservation I present it to you here, in all its childish glory. I kid…it’s pretty good if I do say so myself.

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Cut away the non-linear structure, the running visual cues and kinetic editing, and Don’t Look Now would probably still be a good, if fairly predictable movie.  But fortunately for us we don’t have to do that, and the fact is that Nicolas Roeg in only his second feature as a director has crafted a masterpiece of mood and tone, and the film stands as an achievement of the presentation of pure dread, and a stunning example of how a director can directly engage the audience in his vision.

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