Les Yeux sans visage (Great Restorations)

Show & Culture

Introduction to the film in French. Film starts: 6:30 pm Les Yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face) France-Italy 1960 | Directed by Georges Franju | French original with English subtitles | 90’ | digital Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault, Edith Scob 4K Restoration Surgeon Genessier wants to reconstruct the face of his daughter Christiane, disfigured in a car accident, but to do so he must perform skin grafts taken from young girls. “Among the rare and remarkable incursions of French cinema into the realm of fantasy, and more specifically horror. Franju’s masterpiece stands apart. A lone, pessimistic and obsessive artist, he claims a dreamlike trend, inheriting poetic realism from the pre-war era as well as surrealism.” (Les Inrocks) “The infinitely re-viewable Les Yeux sans visage belongs in a tradition of horror combining the visceral, the philosophical and the psychological... It’s a film open to endless interpretations and full of unforgettable images.” (Guardian)