Mortelle Randonnee | Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani | 20 ans que J'appelle au secours et...

Mortelle Randonnee | Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani | Isabelle Adjani does a Deadly Run in French -the Eye of the Beholder done with Style.

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Mortelle Randonnee

	Mortelle Randonnee Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani Fox Lorber, 2003 average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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Catherine (Isabelle Adjani) is a seductive predator - a serial killer who lures wealthy men to their death. Beauvoir (Michel Serrault), a solitary detective known as "The Eye," is in pursuit. Convinced she is his long-lost daughter, he shadows her through Europe, concealing incriminating evidence and helping her elude the police. But when Catherine falls in love with a blind artist (Sami Frey), Beauvoir's jealousy leads to a fatal accident, which once again sets her on a murderous path. Based on the best-selling novel The Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm, Mortelle Randonnée (Deadly Run) was nominated for five César Awards including Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Cinematography.

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20 ans que J'appelle au secours et persone n'est jamais venu

Pourquoi avoir enlevé le titre original "L'Oeil".
Serrault en detective implacable voit tout, surtout ce qu'il veut voir. La tendresse infinie envers sa petite fille inconue se reporte sur une nyphomane desaxée qui tue.
Il la suit, la protège et assume destin et folie.
Une musique de jazz très évocatrice coupée par "Le Pâtre sur la Montagne" de Schubert.
Adjani, plus belle que jamais, Serrault à son sommet.
Epostouflant seconds rôles pour Stéphane Audran et Guy Marchand.

Isabelle Adjani does a Deadly Run in French -the Eye of the Beholder done with Style.

This was apparently released previously with an English name 'Deadly Run' - which is a decent translation. I've a feeling it would attract more attention if Isabelle Adjani was given more prominence in the listings - you know that gorgeous French actress who was in that(not very great) film with Sharon Stone, in 'La Reine Margot', 'Subway'{Metro?),often without clothes and stunning in 'One Deadly Summer'. Maybe she has a limited acting range or maybe she's just been typecast in roles that can be interpreted with a limited range of pouts and wide-eyed stares(even 'La Reine Margot') but like John Wayne whether it's acting or not it's engaging and entertaining. Michel Serrault(more substantial actor) is a default crumpled French detective who is hired to investigate her but becomes obsessed, goes AWOL and voyeuristically follows her through a 'Deadly Run'. It can be a bit like a series of erotic fashion shoots but for what it is it's entertaining and original.
And you can't imagine the story being done better. Which brings is to the other version of this . The story is from a novel by Marc Behm called ' the Eye of the Beholder' and there was a totally forgettable film of this (I'm not sure when it came out)called ' Eye of the Beholder' with Ewen MacGregor. Dull, plodding, leaden, no style at all - the worst film I've seen Ewen MacGregor in. Some of the settings are changed (and the investigator's employer) but mostly it's the same story.
The Isabelle Adjani/ Michelle Serrault version is the definitive one and should be better known - dubbing wouldn't hurt at all as it's a very visual(voyeuristic) film (but without a lot of gratuitous nudity - more's the pity). This came out in the early 90s. Oh ... it's in French with subtitles - that will put off most of the people who would enjoy it, unfortunately.

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Isabelle Adjani, C'est Toute

Claude Miller directed Mortelle randonnée with Michel Serrault and a young Isabelle Adjani. Serrault is Beauvoir, a private eye, who mourns the death of his daughter in 1962 (an important date). Isabelle Adjani is a serial killer, born in 1962, who ritually searches for her "father" among rich strangers and then murders him (them). When Beauvoir crosses Catherine's path, a folie adieux results, which of course leads to--murder.

The film is reminiscent of Hitchcock's Marnie, which is not farfetched because Miller was Truffaut's associate and Truffaut wrote one of the definitive studies of Hitchcock. Claude Miller was a part of the nouvelle vague and the nouvelle vague idolized Hitchcock.

The movie is seductive and sexy. Adjani, who always looks great, looks even better in this film. The scenes at Spa play like a Robert Palmer video, with a soupcon of Robert Altman-like voyeurism.

Michel Serrault's private eye is quirky and idiosyncratic; Adjani's Catherine vague and mad.

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