Don’t Look Now scene
Don't Look Now (Italian: A Venezia ... un Dicembre rosso shocking, lit. "In Venice ... shocking red December") is a 1973 English-language thriller film directed by Nicolas Roeg, adapted from Daphne's short story du 1971. Maurier Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland portray Laura and John Baxter, a married couple traveling to Venice following the recent unfortunate death of their daughter, after John accepted an order to rebuild the church. They meet two sisters, one of whom claims to be clairvoyant and informs them that their daughter is trying to get in touch with them and warn them of the danger. John initially rejects their claims, but he himself begins to experience mysterious visions.
Don't look now focuses on the psychology of grief and the effect of a child's death on a relationship. The film is known for its innovative editing style, repetitive motifs and themes, and the controversial sex scene that was explicit by the standards of contemporary mainstream cinema. It also uses flashbacks and flashforwards in line with the prediction display, but some scenes are intertwined or merged to change the viewer’s perception of what’s really going on. He adopts an impressionist approach with his paintings, often hinting at events with familiar objects, patterns and colors using associative editing techniques.
This movies scene was one of the most slo-mo movie4 scene of all time.
Working with a Daphne du Maurier short story, Roeg gives us Laura (Christie) and John (Sutherland), a married couple who travel from Britain to Venice for his job after losing their young daughter in a drowning accident.
The sex scene
It’s a simple predinner sex scene in a hotel room, but the way Roeg shoots and edits it, and the manner in which the actors perform it, makes it extremely powerful.
is it so groundbreaking?
It just feels so real. It’s also a rare sex scene that chimes in perfect harmony with the film around it. Their sex feels like both an expression of grief and a welcome respite from it. Most of all, the actors just look like they know what they’re doing. No wonder they’ve been denying the sex was real ever since.
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