Don’t Look Now

UK/Italy, 1973. Director Nicolas Roeg. 112min.

A red hooded coat – that fairy tale trope of Little Red Riding Hood – gains an ominous significance in Nicolas Roeg’s masterful thriller. Based on a novella by Daphne du Maurier, the film tells of a married couple coming to terms with their daughter’s accidental death by drowning. The girl’s red coat and its colour (red being the colour of blood) become the principal indicators of mental time travel, which takes on the form of traumatic flashbacks and sinister premonitions. Here Roeg excels in generating multiple senses of disorientation that are temporal as well as spatial.

With Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland and Hilary Mason. Costumes Marit Allen.

Past screenings

Wearing Time: Returns, Recalls, Renewals – Miami
Saturday January 30 2016, 16:30 | Bal Harbour Shops

Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream – London
Thursday 16 March 2017, 18:30 | Picturehouse Central
Screened alongside Childhood Storage (2009).