Directed by Claude Miller, the film stars Michel Serrault as The "Eye" Beauvoir, Isabelle Adjani as Catherine, and Geneviève Page as Mme.

Catherine has a real love affair with a blind architect (Sami Frey), but Beauvoir's jealousy causes the man's death.

[2] The film was commercially unsuccessful, generating only 916,868 admissions in France,[1] but gradually acquired a cult status in its native country.

"[6] TV Guide said "Miller inverts the typical cat-and-mouse thriller conventions to produce a treatise on parental loss.

"[7] Roy Armes wrote: "What is remarkable about Mortelle randonnée is the extent to which the lushly assured mise-en-scène and solid technical mastery are applied to a subject which is never remotely convincing or engaging.