Can anybody think up of some more films that closely resemble Don't Look Now? I don't particularly mean horrors so much as I don't think Don't Look Now is a horror. Film's like Solaris (1972) Does that film resemble Don't Look Now? What other films are there??? I'm thinking of films which match in story, photography, cuts, colour, acting, music etc.
If its a foreign film the better.
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Did anybody mention "Valerie a týden divu"? That's the first that came to mind when I watched this: the cinematographic style have very much in common, also very weird scenes, the subconscious approach to the story and the editing manner, etc. Highly recommended, it's a true masterpiece.
shareValerie is a typical product of late '60s and early '70s in Middle Europe. In style, editing, camera work etc it can remind us on early Polanski, Forman, Chytilova, Makavejev, Jancso, maybe even some leftist Italian authors or Herzog.
Compared to their work, Don't Look Now is much more coherent and logical, more English. Even the "weird scenes" appear where they simply have to be.
I must admit, however, that if you have in mind only the beginning of the movie (pond scene, wine on slides, windows etc), I'd have to agree with you.
Check out a film from 1977 called "Haunts," directed by Herb Freed. I immediately thought of this movie after watching "Don't Look Now" - same vivid, austere, European-art-film atmostphere. Both films feature a central dilemma of fantasy vs. reality. Also, both films have a very subtle twist ending which connects with the rest of the movie in unusual ways (and the composer Pino Donaggio scored both films).
Dario Argento's "Deep Red" comes to mind. Deffinately "Suspiria" too.
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It always reminded me of harold and maude a little bit. Not even sure why...
shareThe first Silent Hill game, and the film adaptation, both draw a lot from "Don't Look Now", with a guilt-ridden parent chasing after a ghostly child.
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I don't know if someone else has already said it, but Dario Argento's "Deep Red" (Profondo rosso) has a lot in common with this, starting with the psychic theme. The violence is a lot more gory, though.
I wonder if Argento was inspired by Roeg?
Another film similar to this is "La casa dalle finestre che ridono" (The House with Laughing Windows) by Pupi Avati.
what about "the shout"??
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078259/
a lost masterpiece.
also, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski who has some connection Roeg.
POSSESSION (1981)
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Well In Bruges sort of plays like a loose, more mainstream remake of DLN a bit. With lots of guns and somewhat hipsterist humor.
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