Don't Look Now: Editing as Premonition

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Nicolas Roeg was a cinematographer before he was a director, and Don’t Look Now is the film of a man who thinks in images the way a poet thinks in rhyme. Released in 1973 and adapted from a Daphne du Maurier short story, it follows a married couple to a wintry, decaying Venice after the death of their young daughter, where the husband begins to glimpse a small red-coated figure in the alleys and a blind psychic warns that his life is in danger. On paper it is a supernatural thriller. On screen it is something stranger and greater: a film that uses the mechanics of editing to dramatise grief, foresight, and the terrible idea that time might not run in a straight line.

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Don't Look Now: Editing as Premonition