Don't Look Now and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

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The story is, at its core, a tale about seeing and talking with the dead, as well as about psychic visions and premonitions. A 4K digital restoration (approved by Roeg) was released on DVD and Blu-ray in 2015, by the Criterion Collection. She is from Edinburgh, has a shock of white hair, and often stares toward John as though she sees him.

In the end, Roeg only cut nine frames from the sequence, and the film was awarded an R rating in the United States.Laura and John have lost their daughter but meet up with a blind woman who has visions of the dead child and can hear her warnings to her father.

John, however, cannot fathom a mind so at ease with the unexplainable and a heart that counters grief in a manner so different from his own, which is why he immediately begins discounting the sister’s vision as a ruse: “Give them half a chance and they would have got money out of Laura—anything. Shortly afterward, John is nearly killed in an accident at the church when the scaffold he is standing on collapses, and he interprets this as the "danger" foretold by the sisters. The piano was played by Donaggio again, who also played the flute; in contrast to his skill as a pianist, Donaggio was an accomplished flautist.John and Laura, relaxed and back in their Venetian hotel room, make love and get ready for dinner at a restaurant. The boat is moving down the Grand Canal, “not today, not tomorrow, but the day after that, and he knew why they were together and for what purpose they had come. Richmond won for Best Cinematography, and Don't Look Now received further nominations in the Best Film, Direction, Actor, Actress, Sound Track and Film Editing categories. Roeg and his collaborators have constructed an intricate, intense speculation about levels of perception and reality.