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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Georges Franju |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 31 October, 1962 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Criterion Collection |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - French |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 037429195727 |
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Customer Reviews of Eyes Without a Face - Criterion Collection
Skin deep indeed! Foolishly dubbed a Horror Film, this is so much more!
Favourite scene? Finale : towards the end of the movie when the exquisitely masked and now quite insane daughter [Edith Scob], like a nightmarish Coppelia, is surrounded by the fluttering birds as papa's screams fade ..... Oh, the things people do for love!
It's a tale of plastic surgery - reconstructive plastic surgery gone awry, a father's love for his daughter, and unfulfilled love [Alida Valli], the assistant, who will do anything for her lover. A guilt-driver father is determined to restore his daughter's shattered beauty, and there are plenty of available transients [they live in the country, which makes this "activity" oh, so convenient]. But the transplanted faces [there are many], are being rejected by daughter . . . .and the process must be repeated...
Another rather queasy moment? Victim's POV - she sees her face literally being lifted off her skull [fortunately in black and white - color would detract from this horror].
Originally badly recut and dubbed in English, this is a must see in the original French - perhaps a DVD version is on the horizon?
A superior and exquisitely elegant product.
A Portent of Movies to Come
This startling work combines the plot of a splatter movie with the cold, composed style of 1950's Stanley Kubrick. You can sense in it the French appreciation of Poe, Cornell Woolrich, and the Gothic. It has many touches of dark humor and irony that complement the ominous, poetic visual style. Strange moments of anguished emotion keep breaking through the tightly constructed surface of the film. It also anticipates the more graphic horror films to come in the future. The famous "operation" scene will make your skin crawl even after 40 years. The real subject is, of course, our fetishization of female beauty, and what that dehumanization really costs. The figure of a ruthless, murderous doctor performing obscene medical experiments also must have had special relevance to a France that had experienced the terrors of German occupation during World War II. Maurice Jarre's music is memorably spooky. You won't soon forget this one.
Franju where are you?
But what about Georges Franju? What do we know about him and what other films has he made other than "Eyes Without a Face?" I know about, but haven't seen, his ground-breaking documentary "Blood of Beasts" ("Sang des Betes"). I actually own a copy of another film he made called "Judex" which is totally different than either of these. And it is wonderful also.I can't believe he only made three films.Where are the others?
"Eyes Without a Face" is a masterpiece of horror because it goes to the heart of what we fear most-loss of our looks and the pathetic preoccupation with staying young and looking like the magazines and advertisers tell us to. The film is sad because the doctor can't do anything physical to help his daughter.All his skill is useless in the face of her disfigurement. Trying to change fate is useless, learning to live with it is not.