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Eyes Without a Face, 1960

Starring: Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob, Alida Valli

Directed by: Georges Franju

Written by: Pierre Boileau

Language: French

Country: France, Italy

Runtime: 88 min

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Rating:7.8

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The mood of Eyes Without a Face is bleak, atmospheric, and scary. The plot centers around a mad scientist, obsession, and a psychopath. It is a foreign, thriller, and horror movie. Stylistically, Eyes Without a Face is gothic, is surreal, and is gory. In approach, it is serious. The setting is Europe. Eyes Without a Face happens in the 1950s. It is based on a book. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed.

Summary of Eyes Without a Face

Based on Jean Redon's novel LES YEUX SANS VISAGE, French director Georges Franju's gloomy, atmospheric horror film EYES WITHOUT A FACE is a masterpiece of cinematic poetry. After his daughter Christiane (Edith Scob) becomes horribly disfigured in a car accident of which he was the cause, guilt-ridden plastic surgeon Doctor Genessier (Pierre Brasseur) grows obsessed with perfecting the reconstruction of her once-beautiful, but now-ravaged, face. With the help of his sadistic nurse Louise (Alida Valli), Genessier kidnaps young girls and brings them back to his isolated manse for grisly medical procedures that graft the victims' living skins onto that of his daughter's. Often compared to Jean Cocteau's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the film's nightmarish power springs from the surrealistic beauty of its haunting images--from the fiercely blank mask that shields Christiane's wounded face to the merciless incisions of Genessier's surgeries--and a moving climactic scene that garners one of the most transcendent finales in all of cinematic history.

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Language:	French
Country:	France, Italy
Release date:	24 October 1962
Runtime:	88 min

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Pierre Brasseur

as Docteur Génessier

Edith Scob

as Christiane Génessier

Alida Valli

as Louise

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Eyes Without a Face (1960)

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Variety

Director Georges Franju has given this some suspense and not spared any shock details. But the stilted acting, asides to explain characters and motivations, and a repetition of effects lose the initial impact. Full Review

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by: Staff (Not Credited)

Los Angeles Times

Disturbing, disorienting, quietly terrifying, it's one of the least known of the world's great horror movies and, in its own dark way, a startlingly beautiful and artful piece of cinema as well. Full Review

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by: Kenneth Turan

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Blood of the Beasts is a documentary included on the Criterion Collection extras. It is one of the most horrifying things I have seen. Yes, we all know slaughterhouses were ugly. Maybe we could stomach some of those documentaries about killing... Read and rate it

18.March.2009
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by: Estlin Jack
Estlin Jack rated this movie6/10Okay

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