Don't Look Back
Ne te retourne pas
Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, France
2009
110 Min
Color
2.35:1
Italian, French
Synopsis
Jeanne (Sophie Marceau) – a writer, married, with two children – starts to see unsettling changes in her home. Her body is beginning to change. No one around her seems to notice. Her family dismisses these fears as the result of the stress of having to finish her next book, but Jeanne realizes that something far deeper, far more disturbing is taking place. A photograph at her mother’s house sends her in search of a woman in Italy. Here, transformed into another woman (Monica Belluci), Jeanne will discover the strange secret of her true identity. —Cannes Film Festival
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Marina de Van
Marina de Van was born in France in 1971, her father being a musicologist. She studied at the Lycée Henri IV and at the Sorbonne University where she earned a degree in philosophy. Then, in 1993 she became a student at the FEMIS, the French school for cinematic studies, where she graduated in 1996. She directed and wrote 6 short movies as well as working as an actress and a writer with fellow FEMIS student director François Ozon. In 2002 she made her first feature film Dans ma peau (2002) as director, writer and actress.
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HKFanatic
5May12
An intriguing film that somehow comes across as less than the sum of its parts. I love me some Hitchcock and body horror, and here Marina de Van tosses those two in a blender, but there's a strange disconnect between the glossy cinematography and the darker nature of the plot. And surprisingly it's Sophie Marceau who seems to have a firmer grasp on the character. This story is worthwhile but not entirely satisfying.
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NE TE RETOURNE PAS (DON'T LOOK BACK) Review
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Last night saw the opening of Hong Kong’s 38th French Cinepanorama, which will host nearly 40 films in theatres around the city over the next two weeks. Kicking things off was Marina De Van’s psychological
Sitges 2009: NE TE RETOURNE PAS (DON'T LOOK BACK) Review
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Jeanne’s reality is bending. The successful journalistic author is loosing her hold on reality – her family becoming literally unrecognizable, her belongings changing and moving without being touched and
Sitges 2009: NE TE RETOURNE PAS (DON'T LOOK BACK) Review
By Twitchfilm.net on August 28, 2010
Jeanne’s reality is bending. The successful journalistic author is loosing her hold on reality – her family becoming literally unrecognizable, her belongings changing and moving without being touched and
NE TE RETOURNE PAS (DON'T LOOK BACK) Review
By Twitchfilm.net on August 28, 2010
Last night saw the opening of Hong Kong’s 38th French Cinepanorama, which will host nearly 40 films in theatres around the city over the next two weeks. Kicking things off was Marina De Van’s psychological
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OH HELL NO, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME on The 'film' " Don't Look Back", directed by Marina de Van, it is the most convoluted piece of trash I have ever had the displeasure of viewing - psycho junk!
By Walter Dryja on October 27, 2010
OH HELL NO, DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME on The ‘film’ " Don’t Look Back", directed by Marina de Van, it is the most convoluted piece of trash I have ever had the displeasure of viewing – psycho junk! It… read review
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