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Deadly Circuit

Deadly Circuit

Crime · Mystery · 1983

A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.

Movie details

Deadly Circuit

“On the trail of a mystery, where obsession becomes a matter of life and death.”

1983 Crime · Mystery 2h 0m

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6.1 / 10

Community rating

A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Claude Miller

Written by

Michel Audiard · Jacques Audiard

Michel Serrault

Michel Serrault

Louis Beauvoir, ' l'Œil '

Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani

Catherine Leiris / Lucie Brentano / Ève Granger / Dorothée Ortis / Ariane Chevalier / Charlotte Vincent

Guy Marchand

Guy Marchand

The pale man

Stéphane Audran

Stéphane Audran

Germaine, the grey lady

Macha Méril

Macha Méril

Madeleine Beauvoir

Geneviève Page

Geneviève Page

Mrs. Schmitt-Boulanger

Sami Frey

Sami Frey

Ralph Forbes

Court is in session

Put Deadly Circuit on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.