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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Georges Franju |
| Stars: |
Edith Scob |
| Actors: |
Juliette Mayniel |
| Genre: |
Foreign Films |
| Subgenre: |
Suspense · Recommended · Mad Doctor · Murder · Tragedy · Classic · French · Mystery · Thriller |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
098602004137 |
| Release Date: |
1959 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 28min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
French |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 1hr 30min
Release Company: Home Vision (October 19, 2004)
UPC: 037429195727 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 1hr 28min
Release Company: Kino on Video (January 09, 2001)
UPC: 738329036935 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Pierre Boileau |
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Professional Reviews
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(10/31/2003, p.34, Roger Ebert): "Franju constructs an elegant visual work; here is a horror movie in which the shrieks are not by the characters but by the images." |
| More Information |
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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 finale... |
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