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Eyes Without a Face

Les Yeux sans visage

France

1960

90 Min
Black and White
French
Subtitled in English
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DIR Georges Franju

PROD Jules Borkon

SCR Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Jean Redon, Claude Sautet

DP Eugen Schüfftan

CAST Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob, Francois Guerin, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault, Beatrice Altariba, Charles Blavette, Claude Brasseur

ED Gilbert Natot

MUSIC Maurice Jarre

SOUND Antoine Archimbaud

Synopsis

Secluded in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured face—but at a horrifying price. At once ghastly lyrical, Eyes Without a Face is a true rarity of horror cinema and has influenced countless films. —The Criterion Collection

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Aphthonius Rhetor

6Feb10

Il est intéressant que la fille, qui voulait mourir, ne se suicide pas à la fin. Sa lente démarche dans les bois, ses yeux clairs derrière la masque pâle, un oiseau blanc sur la main -- une image bien inquiétante.   
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Daniel Seth Levine

31Jan10

Fantastic, creepy film...so happy it's on here for free. I will definitely try to pick up the DVD when I see it.  

Apollo Staar

29Jan10

Awesome. This film creepy without having to show special effects. That is the sign of a true classic.  
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Baxter

27Jan10

Painfully overlooked by people. One of the best movies that could be considered a horror movie.  

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The Forgotten: Death by Light

By David Cairns on January 14, 2010
Above: An heir is electrocuted by an arc light. Smoking. Pleins feux sur l'assassin, (loosely, "Open Fire at the Killer") is the 1961 film directed by Georges Franju and written by the team of Boileau
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "La tête contre les murs" (Franju, 1959)

By Glenn Kenny on October 6, 2009
Some films, and filmmakers, just can't catch the right kind of breaks as far as international reputation goes. A very smart United States distributor circa 1959 or '60 or so, recognizing this film's
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The Forgotten: Homunculus, mon amour

By David Cairns on December 11, 2008
Everything’s either forgotten, or in danger of being forgotten. Apart from a tired array of Christmas classics, cinema of the past seems enveloped in amnesiac shadow, with only you and I, dear reader
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Georges Franju and the Terrible Waking Dream

By Daniel Kasman on April 10, 2008
Above: Edith Scob in Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (1960). The films of Georges Franju are full of sleepwalkers, automatons, and prisoners. Oppressed stages of being reign over his characters
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Eyes Without a Face

By Tony Paulett​o on December 18, 2009

This exceptional surrealist horror is remeniscent of Tim Burton’s early work. Even the music is notably Danny Elfman-esque. The most impressive attribute of Eyes Without a Face is that it exceeds the…  read review

Eyes Without A Face

By gino on November 23, 2009

This is a really great horror Film. No gore, no guts, no raunchy sex or stupid teenagers. The Plot was very well thought through- everything made sense and ran very fluidly. It was thrilling and actually…  read review

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By david lincoln brooks on November 5, 2009

This film, 50 years on (!), still has the power to unnerve, horrify and disgust. Certainly a film about pain and human cruelty. One could dissect it by saying that the story is alluding…  read review

Eyes Without a Face

By Joshua Robert Hathawa​y on November 2, 2009

This film portrays the horrific acts of a doctor trying to save his daughter and the daughter who would rather die than be saved by these terrible deeds but these ideas could have been distilled in…  read review

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