Merci Docteur Rey

Merci Docteur Rey

91 mins | Comedy | Jan. 1, 2002

A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to be his murder. The next day the young man's opera diva mother informs him that his estranged father has been in Paris... until the previous night when he was murdered. Seeking help with a psychiatrist, the young man comes across an eccentric actress who has come totally unhinged by the death of that psychiatrist, the infamous Docteur Rey. At first mistaking her for the doctor, the young man embarks on a madcap mystery, reminiscent of an Agatha Christie novel, with Paris as the backdrop.

Merci Docteur Rey

91 mins | Comedy | Jan. 1, 2002

Merci Docteur Rey
A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to be his murder. The next day the young man's opera diva mother informs him that his estranged father has been in Paris... until the previous night when he was murdered. Seeking help with a psychiatrist, the young man comes across an eccentric actress who has come totally unhinged by the death of that psychiatrist, the infamous Docteur Rey. At first mistaking her for the doctor, the young man embarks on a madcap mystery, reminiscent of an Agatha Christie novel, with Paris as the backdrop.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers
Original title Merci Docteur Rey
Directors Andrew Litvack
Writers

Cast

Dianne Wiest

as Elisabeth Beaumont

Jane Birkin

as Pénélope

Bulle Ogier

as Claude Sabrié

Roschdy Zem

as Taxifahrer

Jerry Hall

as Sybil

Simon Callow

as Bob

Vanessa Redgrave

as herself

Vernon Dobtcheff

as François

Didier Flamand

as Kriminalbeamter

Stanislas Merhar

as Thomas Beaumont