As misogynistic as anything I've seen in ages, it's tricked up with enough fancy cinematography (by Guy Dufaux) to guarantee it sub-Hitchcockian credentials of the sort that some reviewers eagerly hand out to Brian De Palma.
Eye of the Beholder
Obsession is in the eye of the beholder.
1999 · 1h 49m · R
Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Stephan Elliott
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Eye of the Beholder
Overview
A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a serial killer.
Director and cast
- Stephan Elliott Director
- Ewan McGregor as Stephen Wilson
- Ashley Judd as Joanna Eris
- Patrick Bergin as Alex Leonard
- K.D. Lang as Hilary
- Geneviève Bujold as Dr. Brault
- Jason Priestley as Gary
- Kaitlin Brown as Lucy Wilson
- Anne-Marie Brown as Lucy Wilson
- David Nerman as Mickey Argyle
- Steven McCarthy as Paul Hugo
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Remove the directorial flash and filigree, and its narrative would be easier to track.
It's late January, winter is entrenched, and in the lull between the bounty of Christmas and the renewal of spring, the big screen can sometimes seem barren -- a movable famine.
In trying to both inflame and indict our morbid curiosity, Elliott fails to make the needed connection between the audience and a peeper who has lost his moral balance.
Impenetrable mess of a movie.
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