Re: RARA-AVIS: EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, Marc Behm

From: Cinefrog ( Cinefrog@comcast.net)
Date: 23 Jun 2003

on 6/23/03 2:19 PM, Mark Sullivan at DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote:

> Ed,
>
> Eye of the Beholder was published in 1980. It's Behm's only mystery, as
> far as I know. Maxim Jakubowski also put it out in one of the Zomba
> Black Box Thrillers along with Queen of the Night, a tale of Nazi
> Germany, and Ice Maiden, about a modern day female vampire. I haven't
> read either of the others, which is odd considering how much I thought
> of Eye of the Beholder. It was probably the first PI novel I read with
> an unreliable narrator (something Jakubowski used to great effect in his
> one PI novel, On Tenderness Express).
>
> According to Jakubowski's intro, Eye started out as a film script, set
> in Madrid. However, when the film never got made, Behm relocated it in
> the US. In turn, that novel has been adapted into two films. As far as
> I know, the first, Mortelle Radonne, has never been released in the US.
> I'd like to see it. The second, the recent Eye of the Beholder is
> supposed to be pretty bad. I haven't seen it. Since Ashley Judd and
> Ewan MacGregor are roughly the same age, I'm guessing they completely
> dropped the father/daughter dynamic that is at the core of the book.
>
> Behm was associated with some very successful films, including Charade
> and the Beatles' Help.
>
> Mark
>
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Mortelle Randonn饠was hauting and beautiful with Isabelle Adjani in the leading role...the recent version of the film is pure mascarade and close too unbearable...I sincerely hope marc got good $$$ out of the deal, because that would be the ONLY redeeming value....

Steve Novak

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