Eye of the Beholder

Produktion

Canada / UK / Australia
1999, 109min
SUISA: 1002.596
IMDB: 0120662

Cast & Crew

Director:		Stephan Elliott
Producer:		Nicolas Clermont Tony Smith
Cast:		Ewan McGregor Ashley Judd Jason Priestley k.d. lang Patrick Bergin Geneviève Bujold Anne-Marie Brown
Script:		Stephan Elliott Marc Behm (Roman)
Camera:		Guy Dufaux
Editing:		Sue Blainey
Music:		Marius De Vries
Prod. Design:		Jean-Baptiste Tard

Verleiher

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Kinostart CH-D: 29.Jun.2000
Kinostart CH-F: no release
Kinostart CH-I: no release

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Synopsis D

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER is a startling journey into obsession, the story of an intelligence agent so taken with a beautiful killer he cannot bear to apprehend her. Set in the surreal world of a high-tech voyeur, the tale follows him across the country as he embarks on a desperate quest for this enigmatic femme fatale.

Ewan McGregor stars as The Eye, a lonely, isolated British intelligence agent who has lost his wife and daughter, for which he blames his own unforgivable inaction. Yet detachment is part of the job.

The Eye's current mission is to track Joanna Eris (Ashley Judd), a woman suspected of blackmailing the son of a senior British official. But Eris is far more than a blackmailer. She is a seductive, shadowy master of disguises, a frenzied murderer, a lost orphan and an abject mystery whose rage is as fierce as her beauty.

The Eye cannot help but be fascinated by Joanna - especially when a surveillance photo of her seems to reveal the ghostly image of his long-lost daughter, whose absence haunts him. In his deepest fantasies, their two fates as lost souls are somehow connected. As he follows Joanna from murder to murder, the more The Eye finds that he needs to watch her. Not capture her. Not speak to her. But watch her, becoming inexorably more and more obsessed with what he sees. He shadows Joanna without ever letting her know he is there - except that sometimes unexpected turns of fate make it seem as if she has a guardian angel watching over her.

But the closer The Eye gets to Joanna's life, the more dangerous his fantasy becomes. Soon he begins to meddle in her existence, taking action, altering her fate. Yet to catch her would be to lose her, something The Eye cannot allow again in his life. So the odyssey continues . . . until the pursuer and the pursued find themselves on a perilous crash course.