 15_Don’t Look Now
(1973, dir. Nicolas Roeg)
Best Seen: Paramount DVD
Time Code: Chapter 15, 104:15
Roeg’s tale of an art restorer and his wife (played by Donald Sutherland and the supremely sexy Julie Christie) who lose their way and their minds in a maze of Venetian canals and churches after the drowning death of their daughter contains some truly frightening moments. None, though, approach Sutherland’s character’s death at the hand of a mysterious red-hooded, knife-wielding dwarf. You see his demise coming, thanks to some heavy-handed foreshadowing; still, nothing can prepare you for that creepy, craggy face, or the gnomish killer’s baffling head shake just before knife slashes throat.
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