Eyes without a face DVD / directed by Georges Franju ; screenplay by Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: EYE020 | Criterion CollectionLanguage: French Subtitle language: English Series: The Criterion Collection | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs)Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Criterion Collection, 2004.Edition: WidescreenDescription: 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + bookletISBN: - 0780028880
- 9780780028883
- Title on container: Georges Franju's Eyes without a face
- Yeux sans visage (Motion picture)
- PN1997.Y48 Y48 2004
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| 3 Day Loan | LSAD Library DVD collection | DVD 1096A (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100567164 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
French director Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) is an unsettling, sometimes poetic horror film. Pierre Brasseur plays a brilliant plastic surgeon, Prof. Genessier, who has vowed to restore the face of his daughter, Christiane (Edith Scob), who was mutilated in an automobile accident. With the help of his assistant (Alida Valli), he kidnaps young women, surgically removes their facial features, and attempts to graft their beauty onto his daughter's hideous countenance. This naturally has an adverse effect on the "donors," some of whom commit suicide rather than go through life faceless. Franju's haunting, muted handling of basic horror material is what lifts Eyes Without a Face out of the ordinary and into the realm of near-classic. When the film failed to draw crowds under its original title, however, the distributors decided to exploit it as a two-bit "scare" flick with the new title The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on the novel Les yeux sans visage by Jean Redon.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1959.
Special Features:
New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Blood of the beasts (Le Sang des betes), Georgew Franju's 1049 short documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris.
Archival interviews with Franju on horror, cinema and the making of the Blood of the Beasts.
Excerpt from Les Grands-peres du crimes, a documentary featuring 'Eyes without a face' writers Pierre Boileau and Thoams Narcejac (Diabolique, Vertigo).
Theatrical trailers.
Stills gallery of rare production photos and promotional material.
New and improved English subtitle translation.
Also, new essays by novelist Patrick McGrath and writer and film historian David Kalat.
Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob, Alida Valli, Francois Guerin, Alexandre Rignault.
A mad scientist tries to restore his daughter's face by grafting skin from young women he murders.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD, Dolby digital mono.
For private home use only.
In French with optional English subtitles.
Closed-captioned.