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From its red stalker to its eerie strangers, this suspenseful classic organize a template for fright- but its sex intimacy adds a dramatic counterpoint few movies can match
This week reads the restored rerelease of Nicolas Roeg’s spooky masterpiece Don’t Look Now from 1973, accommodated by Allan Scott and Chris Bryant from the short story by Daphne du Maurier. It’s a cinema that apart from everything else popularised the classic scary-movie template: start off with a family tragedy, follow it with an apparently therapeutic recede or flee, an illusory easing of the sadness load, then pivot to a fright nightmare, in a way that the grotesque denouement appears to flower as a mysteriously logical escalation of that initial heartbreak. It’s a shape taken up by Lars von Trier’s Antichrist and, this week, by Ari Aster’s Midsommar.
Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland play Laura and John, a sorrow pair whose young daughter has died in a freak accident. John is an architectural historian and restorer whose job takes him and Laura to Venice- of all the places to go to after your child has died by drowning.
Read more: theguardian.com
