Versatile director Claude Miller invests this pitch black comedy's mise-en-scene with both quizzical humor and considerable tension. Divorced from his embittered wife, Detective Beauvoir (Michel Serrault) has earned his nickname — "The Eye" — working for an agency that specializes in rich clients with missing relatives. Though sleuthing is his livelihood, Beauvoir's passion is his search for his long-lost daughter; the last clue his wife sent was a 1961 high school class photo. Beauvoir agrees to trace the whereabouts of Paul Hugo (Philippe Lelievre), scion of the wealthy Hugo Family and soon spots the missing heir with a golddigger who's calling herself Ca...
Released:
1983
Rated:
NR
Length:
120 mins