Eyes Without a Face 1960 123movies

Watch: Les Yeux sans visage 1960 123movies, Full Movie Online – After causing an accident that left his daughter Christiane severely disfigured, the brilliant surgeon Dr. Génessier works tirelessly to give the girl a new face. He does so, however, by kidnapping young women and attempting face transplants. He has been woefully unsuccessful to date. The doctor’s world begins to collapse around him when his daughter realizes just what he has been doing..
Plot: Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane’s.
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	7.6/10 Votes: 32,225
	96% | RottenTomatoes
	90/100 | MetaCritic
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Reviews:

Surreal fantasy masterpiece
Georges Franju’s atmospheric masterpiece is a tapestry of contradictions. Eyes Without a Face is a compelling tale of sadism that has an astute tenderness at the same time. A film that will disgust you with it’s macabre imagery, yet simultaneously mesmerise you with it’s beauty; a seething tale of love, fashioned by extreme guilt. Through the Gothic confines of a grandiose mansion, Franju has taken ideas from classic stories such as ‘Frankenstein’ and constructed a dream like surrealistic fantasy that has inspired legions of filmmakers since: from obvious inspirations like Jess Franco’s The Awful Dr Orlof, all the way to the full blown Hollywood action fest, Face/Off; Eyes Without a Face stands out as one of cinema’s most important, yet most overlooked films. The central story is a deliriously simple tale of vanity, guilt and redemption; yet one that is lent a great depth from it’s cast of central characters. Doctor Génessier, guilt ridden over a car accident that left his beloved daughter, Christiane, with a destroyed face uses his assistant to kidnap young girls in an attempt to reconstruct her ruined features. The good doctor peels the faces from his victims and grafts them over the ruined features of his young daughter. However, the experiments are a continual failure but, motivated by a strong sense of guilt, Doctor Génessier must keep trying.

The doctor himself is a masterpiece of horror film villainy. Unlike many mad scientists since, the doctor here is firmly placed within reality which makes his motivations easy to believe and therefore the horror all the more fascinating. He is supported by his assistant, Louise; a fellow web of intrigue. Louise isn’t the normal mad doctor’s assistant; she isn’t deformed, or demented but rather a cunning, malevolent and cerebral predator; gathering her victims to aid the doctor’s latest experiment. The real masterpiece of characterisation, however, comes from the central character; the disfigured tragedy herself, Christiane. The scenes that see her float around in her mask gown are some of the most memorable ever brought to the screen. While wearing her mask, Christiane represents both life and death. The mask itself is stagnant and lifeless, but the eyes beneath the mask are full of life’s beauty, giving the young girl a surrealistic look that epitomises the film in that it’s hard to place; is it beautiful, or revolting; good or evil?

This film is a rare treat in that it’s actually frightening. Eyes Without a Face taps into the viewer’s fears by presenting us with a situation that is terrifying because it involves a central character living with horror. You can have all the maniacs with all the weapons you can think of; but it doesn’t compare to having to go to bed every night with a face that is scarred beyond redemption. A fate worse than death, I’m sure you’ll agree. This premise is given conviction through a stark and constantly foreboding atmosphere, which comes as a result of Eugen Shuftan’s magnificent cinematography. The film has a crisp and clean look, which brilliantly offsets the macabre scenes that it is capturing. Thankfully, Georges Franju also seems keen to keep the focus on the surreal horror aspects of the story, which is shown by the way that he rushes through the police investigation that stems from the doctor’s experiments. The film also features a striking and memorable musical score. The music sounds like it wouldn’t be out of place in a carnival or circus, which fits the movie brilliantly as it covers the weird and wonderful imagery that we are treated to on screen.

Overall, Eyes Without a Face is a magnificent expression of the horror genre. The creativity and beauty of the film are sure to delight anyone who encounters it, and this is as important and as breathtaking as anything cinema has to offer. All I can say is that the word ‘masterpiece’ was added to the English language with this film in mind.

The mask
Watching Georges Franju excellent horror film of 1960 one can only realize what Dr. Genessier was going back then, would have been possible with the advance of science. “Les yeux sans visage”, his ground breaking horror film, proves to be one of the most satisfying pictures of this genre. Mr. Franju was an unusual talent whose main interest was not to shock, but entertain and tell a different story. He achieved what he set out to do in this classic that doesn’t seem to age thanks to the great transfer the people at Criterion DVD did with the original material.

Right at the start we watch Louise, Dr. Genessier’s assistant, drag a body late at night and dumps it in the river. The discovery of the body, brings the doctor to identify it as that of his own daughter, a young woman that was disfigured in a car accident. After the burial, we are taken to the doctor’s mansion in a secluded area where we meet Christiana, the real daughter, who is afraid to show her face. With the help of a mask that Louise urges to wear, she appears to be a lifeless doll floating around the house.

Louise, who acts as the procurer for her boss, follows an attractive young student, who she happens to hear needs a place where to stay. Louise befriends her and lures her back to the house where the macabre experiment will be performed on her by Dr. Genessier. Her face is going to be transplanted in Christiana’s face. The operation, which at first is considered a success backfires on the doctor as he watches in horror how his daughter rejects the transplant.

We also get to see how Dr. Genessier is experiment with the dogs he keeps hidden in another part of the house. Dr. Genessier is doing evil things to the animals. Christiana understands she will never have a life again and decides to deal with her father and Louise in the only way she knows how.

Georges Franju directed with sure hand. He doesn’t go for the cheap theatrics that other men in his position would have fallen for. Instead, his narrative is linear with scenes in which one watches the horrors this doctor, who loves his daughter dearly, will go into any extremes in order to make her recover the beauty she lost in the car accident. Maurice Jarre’s musical score enhances the action.

Pierre Brasseur underplays the evil doctor to surprisingly good results. The same can be said of the Louise of Alida Valli, who is never in anyone’s face as she plays the link between the victims and her boss. Edith Scob is seen as the fragile Christiana. Francois Guerin and Juliette Maynill have key supporting roles.

As a final note, Jean Redon, the author of the novel in which the film is based, was a man of vision. Writing more than forty years before the first actual, and legal, face transplant that was done in France in 2004, he pointed to the possibility of a total face replacement, something that was only fiction when he wrote his book. Imagine his reaction upon learning the recent medical achievement if he were still alive.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 30 min (90 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 58656
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Horror
Director Georges Franju
Writer Jean Redon, Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac
Actors Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel
Country France, Italy
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Laboratoires Franay Tirages Cinematographiques (LTC), Paris, France
Film Length 2,408 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP), 35 mm