The Cry of the Owl

(Le cri du hibou) When the object of a man’s voyeuristic obsession looks back, the boundaries between victim and perpetrator begin to blur, in Chabrol’s most Hitchcockian thriller. This thrilling noir, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel, sees the boundaries between victim and perpetrator blur when the object of a man’s voyeuristic gaze looks back. An homage to Rear Window, The Cry of the Owl finds Chabrol at his most Hitchcockian, as surveillance tips into paranoia, and with crosses and double-crosses piling up. Contains scenes of graphic violence or injury and domestic violence or abuse.