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