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Storyline Eyes Without a Face
A brilliant scientist, Professor Genessier, is guilt-stricken after having disfigured his daughters face in a car accident. He has almost perfected the technique of grafting skin tissue and intends to use this science to rebuild his daughters damaged face. But he needs a supply of donors to experiment on.
Movie details Eyes Without a Face
Release : 1960-01-11
Genre : Drama, Horror
Runtime : 88 minutes
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Cast
 | Pierre Brasseur | as | Doctor Gnessier |
 | Alida Valli | as | Louise |
 | dith Scob | as | Christiane Gnessier |
| Franois Gurin | as | Jacques Vernon |
 | Juliette Mayniel | as | Edna Gruber |
| Alexandre Rignault | as | Inspector Parot |
| Batrice Altariba | as | Paulette Mrodon |
| Charles Blavette | as | l'homme de la fourrire |
 | Claude Brasseur | as | un inspecteur |
| Michel Etcheverry | as | le docteur Lherminier |
Some Reviews
How odd I should have to comfort you. You still have some hope, at least.Les yeux sans visage (AKA: Eyes Without a Face) is directed by Georges Franju and collectively written by Franju, Jean Redon, Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac and Claude Sautet. It stars Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel and Francois Guerin. Music is by Maurice Jarre and cinematography by Eugen Schufftan.Dr. Genessier (Brasseur) is wracked with guilt over the car accident he caused that saw his beloved daughter Christiane (Scob) suffer horrendous facial injuries. He has a notion to perform xenograft surgeries on female victims and transplant the face onto that of ChristianeIt sounds like a classic mad scientist movie, the sort where Peter Lorre stalks around the place with a devilish grin on his face, only the French version! Eyes Without a Face isnt that sort of horror film, haunting? Yes, but there is no killing for joy or sadism here, its done for love, to assuage guilt whilst advancing science. Oh its still madness, but theres a real sadness to Dr. Genessiers actions, touchingly so, and with Franju a master of hauntingly lyrical splendour, its a film as beautiful as it is troubling.Christiane is a living doll, a slow moving angel forced to wear a porcelain mask to hide her badly burned face. As she glides around the Gothic halls of the Genessier house and the lower tier corridors of the hospital thats annexed to the house - Franju never wastes a chance to poeticise a scene, using slow and long takes in silence that imbue the story with a sense of the foreboding. Even when there is dialogue, its always in hushed tones unless it involves the police, who are naturally suspicious of the good doctor Genessier. A number of evocative scenes are truly arresting, gorgeous in construction and meaning, none more so than the very final scene that closes the pic down. But the most talked about scene is the one of horror, the surgery procedure that we actually see, a magnificent breath holding sequence, gruesome but once again, done in the name of love! The tragedy of which is palpable. From the opening of the film as Louise (Dr. Genessiers assistant played by Valli) drags a dead body to a lake, to a moving sequence as Christiane visits the caged dogs that serve as guinea pigs for her fathers experiments, the blend of horror with fairytale like sadness is beautifully rendered.Tech credits are very high. Schufftans photography is graceful and sombre, whilst Jarres musical score, particularly the macabre carnival tune he uses, is coming straight from the aural chambers of the surreal. Brasseur is terrific as Genessier, again playing a doctor (he was wonderful the year before in Head Against the Wall), Genessier is a tortured soul with ice cold blood running through his veins, and Brasseur nails it. The French Laird Cregar? Yes. Thats a justifiable compliment. In truth all performances are high in quality, with props to Scob who has to wear the immobile mask and act just with her sad puppy dog eyes.As the doves fly, this is what it sounds like when dogs and a porcelain angel cry. Indeed. 9/10
