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Eyes Without a Face

Georges FRANJU

France1960 88min DCP B&W

Synopsis

Young women keep disappearing. Actually, a famous surgeon has kidnapped them to conduct grafting experiments with their face skin. He wants to restore his daughter Christine’s face that was disfigured in a terrible accident. However, each operation is a failure and the police start to look into disappearances.

Diretor

Georges FRANJU

French filmmaker Georges Franju(1912–1987) combined realism and fantasy, lyricism and brutality, cruelty and tenderness in his works. He was a cinematic poet who showed humanity’s capacity for hypocrisy and ruthlessness while sympathetically portraying the plight of its victims.