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He Died with His Eyes Open (French: On ne meurt que deux fois, lit. 'You Only Die Twice') is a 1985 French neo-noir erotic thriller film directed by Jacques Deray from a screenplay he co-wrote with Michel Audiard, based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Derek Raymond. It stars Michel Serrault and Charlotte Rampling.
Jan 1, 2001 · Will the Sergeant follow the same road to madness as Staniland in his quest to find the truth? He Died With His Eyes Open kicks off a series of gritty Margaret Thatcher-era London mysteries and introduces their central character, the nameless Sergeant.
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Mar 12, 1987 · He believes that an alcoholic, found obscenely battered to death in a seedy, down-and-out part of London, deserves as much official attention as, say, a dead politician. This “nobody” becomes a somebody—a kindred spirit who left behind a strange legacy. Our cop becomes obsessed by the case.
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May 26, 2011 · The son of a textile magnate, he dropped out of Eton aged sixteen and spent much of his early career among criminals and was employed at various times as a pornographer, organiser of illegal gambling, money launderer, pig-slaughterer and minicab driver. He died in London in 1994.
Mar 10, 2013 · Derek Raymond has been called the father of British noir. But author A.L. Kennedy says He Died With His Eyes Open is a crime novel so far beyond noir that there isn't even a word for...
Mar 29, 2021 · Burn Gorman plays a detective investigating a brutal murder in 1980s London. The case has left him so consumed by empathy that he has wilfully walked the same self-destructive path as the victim (Toby Jones), even entering into an affair with the deadly ex-girlfriend (Tanya Franks).
Jan 1, 2007 · A noir-drenched British import about a nameless cop chasing the killer of an unmourned victim. With a flat wallet and shabby clothes, it’s clear that the corpse is a throwaway. Nobody cares except for a nameless detective sergeant in the London Metropolitan Police’s Department of Unexplained Deaths, a place where lost souls ...
