The October Project 2: Day 3

 

 

"Christine is dead. She is dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead!"

 

Don't Look Now  (1973)

Directed by Nicolas Roeg

 

 After yesterday's awesome but skanky (awesomely skanky!) zombie epic, here's a classy Daphne Du Maurier adaptation to cleanse the palate. In an eerie, off-season Venice a grieving couple, played by Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, try to process the drowning death of their daughter (no spoiler it's literally the first thing that happens). While Sutherland attempts to lose himself in restoration work, Christie befriends two eccentric English sisters, one of whom is blind and claims to be a medium in touch with their dead child. Things grow progressively more strange and until the blind psychic claims to sense something terrible looming unless the couple leaves Venice. Also, who or what is that small figure in the red coat that Sutherland keeps glimpsing out of the corner of his eye? Could it be?......but that would be telling.

I don't want to say anything more except that the film builds to a truly unforgettable conclusion.