Eyes Without a Face [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Pierre Brasseur Alida Valli Juliette Mayniel Edith Scob François Guérin
	Video by:	Lopert Pictures Corporation
	Sales Rank:	278036

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Actor(s):
Pierre Brasseur
Alida Valli
Juliette Mayniel
Edith Scob
François Guérin

Creators:
Eugen Schüfftan (Cinematographer)
Jules Borkon (Producer)
Claude Sautet (Writer)
Jean Redon (Writer)
Pierre Boileau (Writer)
Pierre Gascar (Writer)
Thomas Narcejac (Writer)

Director(s):
Georges Franju

Recording label: Lopert Pictures Corporation
EAN: 0738329036935
Binding: VHS Tape
Format: Black & White, Original recording reissued, Subtitled, NTSC,
Release Date: 2001-01-09
Universal product code (UPC): 738329036935
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: Unrated

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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

Running time: 88 minutes
Language: French (Original Language)