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Eyes Without A Face

1959, Movie, NR, 84 mins

Eyes Without A Face: Review

EYES WITHOUT A FACE | HORROR CHAMBER OF DR. FAUSTUS, THE | LES YEUX SANS VISAGE | OCCHI SENZA VOLTO
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At the center of this eerie, poetic horror thriller is famed plastic surgeon Dr. Genessier (Pierre Brasseur), who, obsessed with reconstructing the disfigured face of his daughter Christiane (Edith Scob), sends his loyal female assistant (Alida Valli) to the Sorbonne to lure young women to his laboratory. Dr. Genessier then proceeds to remove their faces in an attempt to graft the flesh onto Christiane's accident-scarred visage--hidden behind a mask that reveals only her melancholy eyes. Adapted by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac (who collaborated on DIABOLIQUE and VERTIGO) from a novel written by Jean Redon, THE HORROR CHAMBER OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS is a blood-curdling picture directed by Georges Franju at an even, distant pace that builds tension to an almost unbearable level. Having found fame first as documentarian, Franju presents this thriller in the same manner as the gruesome but brilliant LE SANG DES BETES (Blood of the Beasts), his unflinching, unrelenting, poetic documentary about a slaughterhouse. The sickening scene in which the scalpel-wielding Dr. Genessier removes his victim's face in one flap of grotesque flesh is photographed without even the slightest hint of sensationalism. Instead, it is as if Franju and Dr. Genessier have seen this happen a thousand times before. The film was released in the US in 1962. (In French; English subtitles.) leave a comment
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