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 A daughter without a father is in the eye of a father without a daughter. Broken families produce deep losses.
-Review by David Bruce |
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EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
(1999)
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This page was created on February 22, 2000
This page was last updated on
May 22, 2005
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Directed by Stephan Elliott
Writing credits: Marc Behm (novel), Stephan Elliott
Ewan McGregor as The Eye
Ashley Judd as Joanna
Jason Priestley as Gary
k.d. lang as Hilary
Patrick Bergin as Alex Leonard
Geneviève Bujold as Dr. Brault
Anne-Marie Brown as Lucy
Kaitlin Brown as Lucy
David Nerman as Mike
Steven McCarthy as Paul
Vlasta Vrana as Hugo
Janine Theriault as Nathy
Don Jordan as Toohey
Maria Revelins as Ms. Keenan
Lisa Forget as Nurse
Gayle Garfinkle as Head
Stephane Levasseur as Federal Agent #2
Al Vandecruys as Alaskan Federal Agent #1
Produced by Mark Damon (executive), Hilary Shor (executive), Tony Smith
Original music by Marius De Vries
Cinematography by Guy Dufaux
Film Editing by Sue Blainey |
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SYNOPSIS:
The Eye, a lonely & isolated British intelligence agent who has lost his wife and daughter, blames his own unforgivable inaction. Yet detachment is part of the job. The Eye's current mission is to track Joanna Eris, 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 The Eye follows Joanna from murder to murder, the more he 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.
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| At some level this movie seemed to me to reflect the pain and distortion that can and does happen from the loss of family, children, and parents. In the pain and dysfunction of the two main characters there was a continual reminder of a divine presence. Significally, there was a badly battered plaster Jesus on a cross as though identifing with, and standing with, the several victims in the film. These two people were hungry for relationship but avoided it, perhaps, for fear of more loss. Sound familiar? |
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