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Eyes Without a Face

Les yeux sans visage

1960

Georges Franju

Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Edith Scob ...

7.4

6,331

Horror. Thriller 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....

	Author	Review
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"'Eyes Without a Face' is a perfect example of how cinematic poetry can transform a seemingly disreputable movie genre."	POS
United States	Entertainment Weekly	"One of those rare horror films that induces discomfort by showing practically nothing."	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Sharp as a scalpel, soft as a caress, this is a weird masterwork."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"As absurd and as beautiful as a fairy tale."	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Milne Time Out	"A marvellous movie in the fullest sense."	POS
United States	David Edelstein Slate	"Among the most disturbing horror films ever made."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Like a nightmare that never ends, this is a vision of madness, loneliness and, yes, horror that, once seen, demands to be viewed over and over again"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Franju constructs an elegant visual work; here is a horror movie in which the shrieks are not by the characters but by the images.(...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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