OBSERVED BY VENICE

A Photo-Essay by Brian Sibley & David Weeks

Nicolas Roeg's 1973 film, Don't Look Now, based on Daphne Du Maurier's short story, suggests that Venice is not the place to go if you are - as they used to say on the cinema posters - of a nervous disposition.

As for David and myself - whilst we've never once spotted Mr Roeg's dwarf in the red raincoat - wandering through the streets of Venice has repeatedly stirred memories of another film: that last, dreadful offering from the late Stanley Kubrick - for Venice is truly a city filled with "eyes wide shut..."

Indeed, Stan sent his prop-buyer there to get Tom's mask and we came across at least half-dozen mask shops boldly sporting signed testimonials to that effect from no less an authority than Mr Cruise himself.

Anyway, dwarfs aside, we did, quite often, get the feeling that we were being WATCHED --- albeit by largely unseeing eyes...

















Images: © Brian Sibley and David Weeks, 2008



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