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August 15, 1928

 


Nicolas Roeg (August 15, 1928) is an English film director. The Man Who Fell to Earth(1976) is one of his famous films. This director often uses a disjunctive narrative presentation on screen. One of his films is Don't Look Now (1973). When I saw this movie, I found it so gory as to be off-putting. Then I read up on the story (from a Daphne DuMaurier novel) and found out Roeg's film is considered a major classic. Now that I read that, I find my assessment has changed. 

There is a meowing on the soundtrack. It grows throughout the film though this sound is always a minor detail. Finally it is explained, in the scene where Donald Sutherland walks an old lady, purported to have psychic abilities, home to her Venice apartment. He, I believe, is the one who comments that she takes care of the cats but they don't stay. She says, "Do you like cats Mr. Baxter." He says, "Yes, but they often don't like me."

Nicolas Roeg and Julie Christie, the star, are reported to have attended seances together, before filming started, in order to get certain scenes in Don't Look Now right.

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