Don't Look Now

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Katz</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Anthony B. Unger</B></div> <div> <B>From a Story by Daphne DuMaurier</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Laura Baxter......Julie Christie (Dr. Zhivago,Heaven Can Wait,Shampoo)</B></div> <div> <B>John Baxter.......Donald Sutherland (Animal House, JFK, Klute, MASH)</B></div> <div> <B>Heather...........Hilary Mason (Dolls, Meridian, Robot Jox)</B></div> <div> <B>Bishop Barbarrigo.Massimo Serato (Catch as Catch Can,The Tenth Victim)</B></div> <div> <B>Wendy.............Clelia Matania </B></div> <div> <B>Dwarf.............Adelina Poerio</B></div> <div> <B>Inspector Longhi..Renato Scarpa</B></div> <div> <B>Workman...........Giorgio Trestini</B></div> <div> <B>Hotel Manager.....Leopoldo Trieste (Henry IV, The White Sheik)</B></div> <div> <B>Anthony Babbage...David Tree</B></div> <div> <B>Mandy Babbage.....Ann Rye</B></div> <div> <B>Johnny Baxter.....Nicholas Salter</B></div> <div> <B>Christine Baxter..Sharon Williams </B></div> <div> <B>Det. Sabbione.....Bruno Cattaneo</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Visually haunting and beautifully directed, with strong performances by Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, this film makes the most out of the considerable scariness Venice has to offer. Striking foreshadowing, symbolism and more than a few chills as the Baxters' every move is accompanied by strange characters and events are in the tradition of Thomas Mann's novella "Death in Venice" from which it borrows liberally. The red leitmotif lends a chilling reminder of Christine every time it appears. The scene of the collapsed scaffolding is dizzying, and the film provides an array of haunting images. terrifying. Fans of Daphne DuMaurier, most famous in the US from the Hitchcock adaptions of the "Birds" and "Rebecca", will love this adaptation of her short story. For anyone with any patience, this will be a thrill and a favorite. Punk-gore fans may find it a Euro-bore. They would however be wrong this time.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Laura and John Baxter and daughter Christine Stimulated by a running color on a photo of Venetian mosaics, which resembles blood, John has a vision and runs to the pond to find his daughter drowned. The Baxters move on to Venice where they are running the restoration of a church beneath the City of Byzantine artifacts. In the bathroom of a restaurant a blind woman psychic informs Laura not to be sad she has seen Christine and she's happy. In fact she was sitting between them in the restaurant laughing. Upon returning to the table Laura feints. On the Gondola ride to meet the bishop., they stop at a church to light a candle for Christine. Suddenly hopelessly lost on an after-dinner stroll, the Baxters hear moaning and see the dwarf clad in red for the first time. Just as suddenly, they find their way. Everywhere they encounter the blind seer and her sister. Laura goes for a walk with the sisters and tells them the details of Christine's death. The seer, Heather tells Laura that John also has the gift/curse of second sight. The Heather believes Christine is trying to get in touch with the Baxter's through John. Acting as a medium, the Heather, Laura believes Christine is trying to warn them to leave Venice. The school in England calls with news that the Baxter's son Johnny has had an accident and Laura immediately leaves for England. That day, work begins on the restoration of mosaics, the scaffolding collapses and John is nearly killed. The same day he witnesses a murdered body being pulled from the water, then believes he sees Laura in a gondola with the weird sisters on the Grand Canal. John meets with the police and explains he fears a killer on the loose his wife is not a well woman and the pension of the sisters has disappeared. As John searches frantically for the pension , he is shadowed by a murder squad detective. The sisters have moved out. A call to England proves that Laura is in England and will be back tonight. John escorts Heather home from the police station where she is gripped by a seizure just after John leaves and as Laura arrives. She saw Christine. "She told you! Leave Venice!" As Laura runs through the streets of Venice, John pursues the sinister ;looking red hooded dwarf through the city as the chilling meeting with destiny approaches.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>