Eyes Without a Face - Criterion Collection
by Georges Franju
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Actor: Alida Valli, Georges Hubert, Juliette Mayniel, Nicole Ladmiral, Pierre BrasseurDirector: Georges Franju
Brand: Image Entertainment
Writer: Georges Franju
Producer: Jules Borkon
Writer: Claude Sautet
Writer: Jean Redon
Writer: Pierre Boileau
Writer: Pierre Gascar
Writer: Thomas Narcejac
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Eyes Without a Face - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Some required viewing for any classic/foreign/horror cinema buff!
Summary: 5 Stars
Chilling and Creepy Hitchcock like movie This film is incredible. So chilling and creepy on the most subdued levels. Shot amazily well. A father so passionate about saving his daughters looks it becomes an obession. Christiane played by Edith Scob, you can feel her pain through the lifeless mask she wears to cover her scars. I highly recommend this movie.
Summary of Eyes Without a Face - Criterion Collection
Secluded in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore his beloved daughter's once-beautiful face, but at a horrifying price. Lauded as a true rarity of horror cinema, Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage) has influenced countless films in its wake and stunned audiences around the world with its shocking yet poetic imagery. The Criterion Collection is proud to present Georges Franju's lyrical black-and-white classic in a long-awaited, high-definition DVD edition.Georges Franju brings a haunting poetry to this lyrical and horrifying 1959 French classic. Dr. Genessier (Pierre Brasseur), a famed plastic surgeon, lures a young woman to his secluded mansion with the help of his mistress Louise (Alida Valli), where he proceeds to remove their faces in an attempt to restore his daughter's scarred visage. Christiane (Edith Scob), disfigured in car accident caused by her guilt-ridden father, hides behind a spooky blank mask that exposes only her sad, lonely eyes, which seem to lose a little more life after each failed graft. Franju's cool presentation gives an unsettling edge to the picture, from the uncomfortably quiet family dinners to Christiane's hesitant explorations of her father's laboratory to the unflinching views of Genessier's bloody operations. Reminiscent of Cocteau's fantasy imagery in Beauty and the Beast, Franju creates an eerie poetry of the doctor's sadistic experiments, culminating in an astonishingly brutal and beautiful finale. The screenplay was cowritten by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, authors of the novels which became Les Diaboliques and Vertigo. Originally titled Les Yeux Sans Visage upon its original French release, the film was cut, dubbed, and renamed The Horror Chamber of Doctor Faustus for American distribution in 1962, but was restored years later for American re-release. --Sean Axmaker
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