Don't Look Now
Pass the warning.
Country
Production
Budget
$1 500 000
Box office
$41 300
Director
Actors
Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary Mason, Massimo Serato, Clelia Matania, Renato Scarpa, Giorgio Trestini, Leopoldo Trieste, David Tree, Ann Rye
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Peter Katz, Anthony B. Unger
Camera operator
Composer
Pino Donaggio
Artist
Audition
Miriam Brickman, Ugo Mariotti
Editing
Short description
Laura and John, grieved by a terrible loss, meet in Venice, where John is in charge of the restoration of a church, two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
What's left behind the scenes
- Italian actor Renato Scarpa, who played the menacing Inspector Longhi, did not speak English. He simply recited the lines that were written for him, without having any idea what they meant.
- The author, Daphne du Maurier, who rarely approved of film adaptations of her works, approved of the film, though she expressed regret that Julie Christie had not been able to star in all films based on her books.
- In the original story by du Maurier, the Baxters meet twin sisters, but it proved impossible to find twin actresses of that age.
- To add believability to the actors' performances in certain scenes, Roeg simply provoked them. Sutherland tried to perform a scene in a church without stunt doubles, and was naively convinced that he was being offered a pole for support. But instead of helping, director Roeg pushed the pole further away from the scaffolding where assistants were securing the actor.
- Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie improvised most of their scenes together.
- The director decided to add the 'bedroom' scene between John and Laura at the very last moment. According to Rogue, otherwise it might have seemed as though the couple only did nothing but argue.
- Italian producer Hugo Mariatti, a long-time friend of Rogue, helped find a composer for the film. The composer, Pino Donaggio, a 32-year-old promising but currently inactive musician from Venice, readily agreed to help create the thriller. The music, according to the director's vision, was to be one of the key artistic devices of the film. Donaggio is known for his hit “You Don't Have To Say You Love Me” and his work in films with Tinto Brass. After the release of Rogue's film, another master of thrillers – Brian De Palma – noticed the Venetian, inviting him to collaborate on “Carrie”.
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