Don't Look Back (2009 film)

Don't Look Back
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Marina de Van
Written by	Jacques Akchoti Marina de Van
Produced by	Patrick Sobelman
Starring	Sophie Marceau Monica Bellucci
Cinematography	Dominique Colin
Edited by	Mike Fromentin
Music by	Luc Rollinger
Distributed by	Wild Bunch
Release dates	16 May 2009 (2009-05-16) (Cannes) 3 June 2009 (2009-06-03) (France)
Running time	111 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$13.7 million
Box office	$2.6 million[1]

Don't Look Back (French: Ne te retourne pas) is a 2009 French thriller film directed by Marina de Van and starring Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci.^[2] Written by Jacques Akchoti and Marina de Van, the film is about a wife and mother of two children who suddenly notices changes to the way the family home is arranged and feels that her body is transforming without anyone around her noticing it. While others believe her perceptions are due to fatigue and stress, she is sure that something more profound is happening, and her search to understand these mysterious perceptions prompts her to track down a woman in Italy who holds the key to the mystery.^[3]

Plot[]

Jeanne, a married woman with two young children, starts to notice small changes taking place in the arrangement of objects in her family's home—furniture, pictures, rooms—as well as in her physical appearance. She seems to be the only one noticing these changes, but still she is absolutely certain that her perceptions are a result of something profound, and are not caused by stress or fatigue, as everyone else seems to think. Feeling increasingly out of sorts, ever more distant, and even psychologically cut off from her husband and children, who are baffled by her behavior, Jeanne goes to her mother in the hope that she, at least, will provide for her some clarification or otherwise soothing solution.

At her mother's home, Jeanne comes across a photograph of what she believes, or has been led to believe, is herself as a young girl, her mother, and another woman. What she sees in that photograph moves her to travel to Italy in order to track down the woman in the photograph. In Italy, Jeanne finds the woman, and in a way, discovers herself as well. She begins to solve the mystery behind her changes, and comes to learn the truth about herself.

Cast[]

Filming locations[]

• Lecce, Apulia, Italy
• Luxembourg
• Paris, France^[5]

Release[]

Don't Look Back was screened out of competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.^[6]

References[]

External links[]

• Don't Look Back at IMDb
• Don't Look Back at Rotten Tomatoes
• Don't Look Back at uniFrance