Eyes Without a Face
(1960)
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Eyes Without a Face
(1960)
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Pierre Brasseur | ... | |
| Alida Valli | ... | ||
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Juliette Mayniel | ... | |
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François Guérin | ... |
Jacques Vernon
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Alexandre Rignault | ... |
Inspector Parot
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Béatrice Altariba | ... |
Paulette
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Charles Blavette | ... |
L'homme de la fourrière
(as Blavette)
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Claude Brasseur | ... |
Un inspecteur
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Michel Etcheverry | ... |
Le docteur Lherminier - médecin légiste /
Forensic surgeon
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Yvette Etiévant | ... |
La mère
(as Yvette Etievent)
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René Génin | ... |
Emile Tessot
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Lucien Hubert | ... |
Un homme au cimetière
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Marcel Pérès | ... |
Un homme au cimetière
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A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Génessier, helped by his assistant Louise, kidnaps nice young women. He removes their faces and tries to graft them onto the head on his beloved daughter Christiane, whose face has been entirely spoiled in a car crash. All the experiments fail, and the victims die, but Génessier keeps trying.... Written by Yepok
This film is dark and somber with a spare, eerie music score that suits perfectly the macabre, surreal story. A brilliant but deranged surgeon, having caused his daughter's disfigurement in a car accident, loses touch with reality and tries to restore her beauty in a most repulsive manner. Undeterred by failure, the mad doctor continues his gruesome work, hoping to find a miracle cure that will reconstruct the girl's facial features and also relieve him of his tremendous burden of guilt. The once-lovely girl realizes that she will never enjoy a normal life or see her beloved fiancé again, and her mute telephone calls to him just to hear his voice show how empty and lonely her life has become. There are some scenes that are horribly graphic but quite well done and a few moments that are poignant and touching amid the cruelty and butchery of the movie's central theme. Each character in this grim, unhappy feature is victimized in some fashion, but in spite of its subject matter, this cult classic is lean, first-rate storytelling.