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

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British women make their presence known in the political world when 29 are elected as Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in 1964—the largest number since women were first allowed to stand for election in 1918.

Don't Look Now's sex scene involving Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland caused considerable controversy before its release in 1973. Upon learning of Christine’s ghostly presence, she becomes “happy, so happy” that she begins crying and remarks, “Neither of us need worry about anything any more. The sisters have helped Laura with this progress, letting her know that Christine is happy in the afterlife and sympathizing with the pain she carries from losing her daughter—something John is unable to do.Utterson, a dull, uninquisitive and methodical lawyer who, by the novel’s end, understands the nature of his friend’s odd behavior and experiments. When John goes to the police station to report her missing, he agrees with the police officer that Laura has been “suffering the aftereffects of shock” and that she may be so stressed from the blind sister’s visions of Christine that she could have had “a sudden attack of amnesia. Roeg served as the cinematographer on Petulia, which incidentally also starred Julie Christie, and Gibbs went on to edit Performance and Walkabout for Roeg. Du Maurier’s world does not ask much introspection of readers, only that they come along for the ride. Laura is insistent and manages to secure a seat on a charter flight with a group of British tourists.

Peter Katz, the film's producer, corroborated Sutherland's account that the sex was entirely simulated. Although this would seem to indicate that Laura indeed took her reserved seat on the plane, John nevertheless constructs a scenario in which Laura never intended to catch the plane and instead “made an assignation with the sisters. The BBC cut it altogether when Don't Look Now premiered on UK television, causing a flood of complaints from viewers. Indeed, as John fears, the sisters “lure Laura beyond marriage into new, transforming perceptions,” according to Auerbach. John's premonitions merge with the present, such as at the start of the film where the mysterious red-coated figure is seemingly depicted in one of his photographic slides, and when he 'sees' Laura on the funeral barge with the sisters and mistakenly believes he is seeing the present, but in fact it is a vision of the future.In 1973, Paramount Pictures released Don’t Look Now, a film adaptation starring Julie Christie as Laura and Donald Sutherland as John. Donaggio became a regular composer for Brian De Palma, and credits Nicolas Roeg with giving him his first lesson in writing film scores, and expressed a desire to work with him again.

The scene was unusually graphic for the period, including a rare depiction of cunnilingus in a mainstream film. John has succeeded in distracting her thoughts from their dead child, and “her voice, for the first time since they had come away, took on the old bubbling quality he loved. Modern Venice has struggled with physical damage from flooding, pollution, and age, as well as the loss of population to other areas.Pauline Kael writing for The New Yorker was more reserved in her praise, considering the film to be "the fanciest, most carefully assembled enigma yet put on the screen" but that there was a "distasteful clamminess about the picture", [25] while Gordon Gow of Films and Filming felt that it fell short of the aspirations of Nicolas Roeg's previous two films, Performance and Walkabout, but it was nevertheless a thriller of some depth. But a close reading of “Don’t Look Now” that focuses on the relationships between the main characters, combined with the understanding that du Maurier wrote this story late in her life, raises some interesting issues. After Laura finds out about the blind sister’s visions of Christine, she is exuberant and energized and can confess to John that she has been trying to hide her depression from him. The sisters also serve as a conduit for Christine, who has two messages to share with her parents: first, that everything is fine with her, and second, that John is in extreme danger and must leave Venice immediately. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) coordinated an international effort to renovate and preserve many of the city’s historic structures.

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