Deadly Circuit

Mortelle Randonnée

Directed by	Claude Miller
Produced by	Charles Gassot
Written by	Jacques Audiard Michel Audiard Marc Behm
Starring	Michel Serrault Isabelle Adjani
Music by	Carla Bley
Cinematography	Pierre Lhomme
Edited by	Albert Jurgenson
Release dates	1983 (1983)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Mortelle Randonnée is a 1983 French thriller film inspired by the novel Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm. Directed by filmmaker Claude Miller, the film stars Michel Serrault as The "Eye" Beauvoir, Isabelle Adjani as Catherine, and Geneviève Page as Mme. Schmidt-Boulanger. The film had a total of 916,868 admissions in France.^[1]

Mortelle Randonnée was released in the United States as Deadly Circuit and in the United Kingdom as Deadly Run. The film was re-made in 1999 as Eye of the Beholder.

Plot

The plot revolves around Catherine, a serial killer who seduces men and then murders them throughout countries in Europe. Catherine is trailed by the detective "The Eye" Beauvoir, who fantasizes that she is his long-lost daughter and disposes of her trail of corpses to foil the police. Catherine has a real love affair with a blind architect (Sami Frey) but Beauvoir's jealousy causes the man's death. Catherine returns to her psychotic killing. As the police dragnet closes in, Catherine and Beauvoir have their final showdown.

Cast

Michel Serrault as Beauvoir
Isabelle Adjani as Catherine Leiris / Lucie Brentano
Geneviève Page as Madame Schmidt-Boulanger
Sami Frey as Ralph Forbes
Macha Méril as Madeleine
Patrick Bouchitey as Michel de Meyerganz
Jean-Claude Brialy as Voragine
Étienne Chicot as Lerner
Guy Marchand as The Pale Man
Stéphane Audran as The Grey Lady

Soundtrack

Music for the film was composed by (and traditional tunes arranged by) Carla Bley, performed by The Carla Bley Band.^[2]

References

External links

Mortelle Randonnée at AllMovie
Mortelle Randonnée at the Internet Movie Database
Mortelle Randonnée at Rotten Tomatoes

Films directed by Claude Miller

The Best Way to Walk (1976)
This Sweet Sickness (1977)
Garde à Vue (1981)
Deadly Circuit (1983)
An Impudent Girl (1985)
The Little Thief (1988)
The Accompanist (1992)
Le Sourire (1994)
Class Trip (1998)
Of Woman and Magic (2000)
Alias Betty (2001)
Little Lili (2003)
A Secret (2007)
Marching Band (2009)
I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)
See How They Dance (2010)
Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012)

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