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Don't Look Now
Why this pick
Its Venice is equally disorienting: a beautiful, maze-like city turns a couple’s private grief and distance into mounting, sensuous unease.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1990 1h 47m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Movies like
The Comfort of Strangers
Thriller
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
It is a movie about relationships between two distinct and very different couples. Colin (Rupert Everett) and Mary (Natasha Richardson) are a British couple vacationing in Venice for the second time. They are not married, but Mary has two children, who have been left at home with her mother. We are shown glimpses of a tall man dressed in white, who seems to be observing them from afar. Late one night, they become lost as they search for a restaurant. As they wander around, they meet Robert (Christopher Walken), the British-Italian owner of a local bar. He is the very elegant-looking man in all white. Over several bottles of wine, he tells them stories about his sadistic father who was an Italian diplomat. Robert also talks of the cruel tricks his younger sisters played upon him.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Rupert Everett
Colin
David Ford
Waiter
Giancarlo Previati
First Policeman
Antonio Serrano
Second Policeman
Christopher Walken
Robert
Helen Mirren
Caroline
Natasha Richardson
Mary