Original poster artwork · Great Cinema Master ListBAFTA · 1
Spoiler-free premise
Grieving couple John and Laura restore a Venice church while warnings and glimpses of a red-coated figure unsettle their mourning.
Read expanded premiseLonger, still spoiler-free+
After daughter Christine drowns, John and Laura Baxter move to winter Venice, where John restores an old church. A blind psychic tells Laura the child remains near them, while John repeatedly sees a small figure in Christine's red coat.
Why it belongs
Don't Look Now makes grief a system of visual echoes through red color, water, glass, fractured time, and Venice's mazelike off-season spaces.
Read expanded why it belongsThe fuller editorial case+
A red raincoat, canals, broken glass, slides, church mosaics, bridges, and associative crosscutting make premonition indistinguishable from memory. Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie give mourning intimate, physical credibility.
