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Eyes Without a Face - Criterion Collection
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	List Price: $29.95 Our Price: $28.45 You Save: $1.5 *Features* • Anamorphic • Black & White • Closed-captioned • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 24 October, 1962 DVD Release : 19 October, 2004
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Eyes Without a Face - Criterion Collection description
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

Eyes Without a Face - Criterion Collection Customer Reviews

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Creepy and well made

This is one horror film that certainly stands apart from the lot. Made in 1960, it can still provide some impact today. It concerns Dr. Genessier, a surgeon whose daughter's face has been horribly disfigured in an accident. He has been experimenting with skin grafting in order to restore her beauty and her happiness along with it. Each attempt fails and until he can perfect a solution, he needs an endless supply of organ donors. His daughter, Christiane, isn't quite as optimistic as her father and grows increasingly despondent. See what happens when the police begin tracking the good doctor. Movies about transplants and medical experiments were hardly new territory at the time this film was made, though what sets this one apart is the graphic nature, good performances and tight script. It is unrelenting and even quite creepy at times. Pierre Brasseur is terrific as Dr. Genessier; he is cool, calm and heartless as he lies to the police and we wonder if he is experimenting for his daughter's happiness or to satisfy his own scientific curiosity. The film builds fairly intensely to the climax, which is rather satisfying. The Criterion Collection edition is, as usual, quite good. The transfer is excellent and the film is presented in its original French, though I don't understand the reason for using white subtitles rather than the standard yellow. Since much of the story takes place in a hospital with white sheets, surgical gowns, etc., the white subtitles sometimes do not stand out enough to read easily. Perhaps Criterion felt yellow subtitles would detract too much from the mood? Subtitle criticisms aside, this film deserved great treatment and it received it. Buy this one.

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