2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

heau I've just seen the first 50 minutes of this on TV5 Monde and gave up. I'm glad that other reviewers have found the plot incomprehensible; I thought it was just my French. I agree it has a certain mysterious charm and Catherine Deneuve certainly looks her stunning best but the quality of the acting is abysmal and no character generated a scintilla of sympathy or interest for me. Like so many French films, it's strangely compelling despite its flaws and apparent lack of plot logic - perhaps it's the beauty of the château or the anticipation that some clue to purpose of the characters' activities is suddenly going to appear; I'm not sure it deserves to be described as dramatic tension though. It reminded me of the Avengers without the humour and of The Prisoner without the menace and innovation. A very brown film of its time!

univibe I saw this movie twenty-five years ago and have never heard of it since. I'm writing this off my memory in the hope that someone will indicate how to find this lost film. It's strange that a movie featuring two well known actors like Catherine Deneuve and Sami Frey could completely disappear but it's not the strangest thing about the film. The plot line is almost incomprehensible: It deals with a female Marlowe investigating a sect that uses some kind of mind-control ray. Not very clear. The characters sometime walk out of a room inside a city building to find themselves in another room in a castle in the countryside??? Actor Sami Frey has installed some short-wave radio equipment inside a big round shaped pigeon house and can detect/control the ray. I'm not clear about the details. What I do remember is that the soundtrack is very elaborate and that's the reason I would like to see the movie again. I also remember the photography to be quite good. Maybe it was an experiment at emulating Luis Bunuel. I hope it resurfaces eventually.

dbdumonteil First shock : you meet some kind of private eye ,complete with trench coat and hat;surprise,for the first (and probably last) time in the story of cinema ,the traditional private of the old film noirs is a woman,and an attractive woman at that (Deneuve!)! The story is bizarre ,involving a sect,"the Church of the final Revival".Deneuve is hired by a mysterious noble,Arnaud De Maule ,to investigate his friend Chloé's disappearance."Ecoute voir" might seem Chandleresque,but it also owes a good deal to Jules Verne (the ray) and even Souvestre-Alain's Fantomas ,the latter taking us back to the prehistory of the French cinema(Louis Feuillade).In a word: odd.

Osmar-5 There is a great lesbian scene on this movie. Where Catherine Deneuve kisses in the mouth to Anne Parillaud.They are surprised by a man. It is a very good scene for the lovers of lesbians' scenes.