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Eye of the Beholder
- Director: Stephan Elliott
- Writer: Marc Behm; Stephan Elliott
- Producer: Manon Bougie; Al Clark
CGiii Comment
From the director of the sublime Priscilla - and with this dramatic shift in genre - he has well and truly bombed.
Pretentious, contrived and annoying.
There are some nasty scene shifts and head-exploding audio moments.
Limited relevance to CGiii - some men-hating lesbians will relate to the man-killing femme fatale.
And...Ewan McGregor's acting is strange.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
British Consulate investigator Det. Stephen Wilson, a.k.a. the Eye, comes across a disturbed lady serial-killer while on an otherwise mundane assignment. Already a bit psychologically fragile from his wife's abrupt removal of herself and their daughter from his life (with the lingering memory of his daughter haunting him like a manifest ghost), his psychosis as a displaced dad dovetails with the femme fatale's psychosis as an abandoned daughter (crying "Merry Christmas, Daddy" over her expired victims). A bond forms, or, rather, an obsession, as the Eye abandons his job to secretively stalk this mysterious woman full-time as she visits many major U.S. cities under various names, leaving numerous victims.
Cast & Characters
Ewan McGregor as Stephen Wilson;
Ashley Judd as Joanna Eris;
Patrick Bergin as Alexander Leonard;
Genevieve Bujold as Dr. Jeanne Brault;
k.d. lang as Hilary;
Jason Priestley as Gary;
Anne-Marie Brown as Lucy Wilson;
Kaitlin Brown as Lucy Wilson;
David Nerman as Mickey Argyle;
Steven McCarthy as Paul Hugo;
Vlasta Vrana as Mr. Hugo Sr.;
Janine Theriault as Nathy;
Don Jordan as Toohey;
Maria Revelins as Miss Keenan;
Lisa Forget as Nurse