LOOK AGAIN

Canada, 2011, 87 minutes, Cover.Colour.
Morena Baccarin, Paul Christie, Sadie Le Blanc, Chris William Martin, Alex Carter. Maxim Roy.
Directed by Jean- Marc Piche.


Look Again is a Canadian telemovie with an American setting, a kind of murder mystery that is in the vein of the novels by and films of the novels of Mary Higgins Clark. The focus is on a female heroine, played by the attractive Morena Baccarin, a kind of Anne Hathaway look-alike.

The plot concerns the murder of her fiance, her friendship with a fellow estate agent, her friend’s engagement, the heroine suspicious of the fiance, interactions with the police, meeting an artist, his being under suspicion, the final confrontation and the rescue of the heroine.

Popular ingredients, an easy watch on television, especially for women’s audiences pulled termed the film is targeted, though the screenplay and direction are by men.


1. A popular television murder mystery? The appeal? To women’s audiences? Women’s characters and situations? Male villains? Romance?

2. The Chicago setting, filmed in Québec? Apartments, art spaces, business offices, homes for sale? Realistic atmosphere? For a melodrama? The musical score?

3. Setting the scene: Alison and Nancy doing their exams, the celebration, the phone call from Zach, Alison going to the house, disturbed, the attack by the intruder, Zach arriving, chasing him, stabbed to death?

4. Alison and her grief, Nancy trying to help her? Myra and her work at the office, Alison passing the exam, the status? Her sense that the attacker was still at large? Detective Jennifer Marshall, her concern, investigations, questioning?

5. Nancy and her relationship with Mike? Alison suspicious of him, a sense of him? The smell of Cologne, of limoncello? Her wariness, talking with Nancy, looking him up on the Internet, his police record, his driving her to the dinner, her reaction to the marriage proposal? The talk at the party, hostility? His confiding in Nancy, her giving him an alibi when he did not want one, his slapping her?

6. Alison, the dinner with Rick, going to the concert, to the gallery, the portraits, his wife? The gallery owner, friendly, her later explanations about the wife’s suicide? Rick’s drinking? Alison and her suspicions, going to his studio, the jewellery, his finding her? Alison hitting him, the ambulance? Her confusion? Her being attacked again in the house?

7. The Detective, following through? Alison and her confusion? In the parking area, the attack by Mike, his explanation of what he had done, his confession, about to kill Alison, Rick disturbing him and Alison hitting him? The arrest?

8. The Detective, the documents, Mike’s being fostered, Keach as his father, searching for him, his dying wife’s anxiety for him? Not telling the truth, helping him? Realising Mike’s violence, his killing of Myra, Myra and her friendship with Alison, confiding, teachers party, her being with Keach on the night of the killing, Mike killing her? Keech and his threatening Alison in her apartment? The motivations for reputation and business success?

9. The confession, Jennifer Marshall and the police about to arrest Keach, his killing himself?

10. Nancy and her dismay? Alison meeting with Rick? Her future?