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ChrisReynolds

The last few scenes are stunning. Great mix of the horrific and the beautiful throughout the film, reflecting the plight of the girl at the heart of this story. The only thing that lets this film down are the two cops at the end who act in a bafflingly incompetent way.

12 years 9 months ago

constantina

more gore than expected for its era. great film though

11 years 2 months ago

Holden7

I didn't find it disturbing at all...its kind of creepy but in a very beautiful way. The ending was especially gorgeous.

12 years 9 months ago

mondovertigo

Very creepy yet beautiful. Loved the music in this film, and the ending is spectacular.

9 years 1 month ago

Siskoid

Eyes Without a Face (Les yeux sans visage) is a 1960 French horror-thriller about a surgeon obsessed with finding a new face for his disfigured daughter, even if it means pretty young girls must die on the operating block. Definitely on a slow burn, the film is more concerned with creating an eerie and disturbing atmosphere than, say, jump scares, though there is more gore than one would expect for the time. But this is horror as art film, the young woman with the unmoving mask, her beauty frozen in time and a prison, echoed in the surgeon's equally odd kennel. The surgeon's desperate attempts to preserve or restore a past that is precious to him is at the heart of the film's poetics then. But poetry tempered with a clinical proceduralism that creates a frisson as we linger almost too long on things distasteful. The film's big weakness is the role of the police in the thriller, which isn't resolved very well, but that's all forgotten in the final, haunting sequence.

6 years 10 months ago

americanadian25

Unsettling and twisted even by today's standards... can't imagine how it must have been received back in 1960. The film is quite brilliant though, one of my favorite movies.

8 years 4 months ago

uggaexul

the surgery scene was good, but the idea of fast recovery after the operation made the part of the movie unconvincing and dull, thus making it less 'noir' and tragedic. still watchable with beatiful photography and story. indeed this must have influenced Almodovar on making 'The Skin I Live In'

10 years 8 months ago

lopan017

Very creepy french movie.

14 years 3 months ago

meliesmoon

A haunting tale of a Frankenstein turning his daughter into a monster.

3 years 11 months ago

george4mon

great! similar to 'the skin i live in'

11 years 6 months ago

afan

creeeeeepy

13 years 10 months ago

Brantastic16

And if you don't speak French, watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-61XL_TNY1U&feature=related

Watch it! It's an instant favorite of mine. It's surprisingly effective and is quite gory for its time. The surgery scene in particular was rather disturbing.

12 years 10 months ago

willian golding

You must see this...horrible and poetuc.beautiful bk¡lack and white

14 years 1 month ago

nicolaskrizan

B poetry

http://beyond1001movies.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/backtrack-les-yeux-sans-visage-1959/

10 years 3 months ago