Don't Look Now and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Christie liked the script and was keen to work with Roeg, who had served as cinematographer on Fahrenheit 451, Far from the Madding Crowd and Petulia in which she had starred. Also imagine what kind of work John and Laura do at the time of the story and what kind of life they have in England. Donaggio became a regular composer for Brian De Palma, and credits Nicolas Roeg with giving him his first lesson in writing film scores, and expressed a desire to work with him again. Canby considered the "sincerity of the actors" to be one of the better aspects of the film, [62] while Kael found Christie especially suited to the part, observing she has the "anxious face of a modern tragic muse". As well, when he hears a scream and sees a child running in fear, he never tells Laura about it, even though she is just around the corner.

Du Maurier wrote “old-fashioned novels with straightforward narratives that appealed to a conventional audience’s love of fantasy, adventure, sexuality, and mystery,” he says. Suddenly, John sees from the corner of his eye a small child, in a cloak with a hood covering her head, running away from someone.In his view, Aldo "eliminat[es] a lot of the extreme gore and sex [associated with gialli], but still manages to create an aura of uneasiness with his Venetian locales just as Roeg did a year later". He feels “an impending sense of doom” and is unable to move, thinking, “This is the end, there is no escape, no future. Venice turned out to be a difficult place to film in, mainly due to the tides, which caused problems with continuity, and the transporting of equipment.

John himself is mistaken for a Peeping Tom when he follows Laura to the séance, [14] and ultimately he mistakes the mysterious red-coated figure for a child.He has brought Laura to Venice because this is where they spent their honeymoon, and he hopes the trip will lighten her mood. Don't Look Now was Roeg's third film as director, following Performance (1970) and Walkabout (1971).