Génessier to make his journey up many flights of stairs to Christiane’s room the first time we see her. Like Maya Angelou, she knows why they sing.įranju builds dread with long, slow, quiet takes - it seems to take half an hour for Dr. Meanwhile, Christiane moons around in the mirrorless house, catching sight of herself in any shiny surface (of which there are many in the movie, including Louise’s black raincoat), morosely listening to caged doves chirping. Génessier and Louise take no sadistic pleasure in capturing their prey it’s just what has to be done. The horror and dark comedy of the film is that this plan is presented more or less neutrally. He and his associate - Louise (Alida Valli), whose own face he once repaired - kidnap women who look enough like Christiane, remove their faces, and graft the thin meat onto Christiane’s skull. Génessier is a mad scientist without quite being portrayed as one. Part of the perversity of Eyes Without a Face is that Dr. Génessier (Pierre Brasseur), a surgeon, toils endlessly to get her a new face by any means necessary. Underneath the mask is a ruined face Christiane’s father Dr. The mutilated Christiane (Edith Scob), her eyes staring out from a pale, expressionless mask, drifts from room to room like an elongated doll. Georges Franju’s Les Yeux Sans Visage ( Eyes Without a Face) is a transfixing bad dream about beauty and the parody of beauty.
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