
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Little White LiesEmma SimmondsGeorges Franju's monstrous masterpiece delivers horror sans face but with a huge heart. |
| OregonianShawn LevyFranju conjures images -- sometimes gory, sometimes poetic, sometimes fantastical -- that genuinely haunt: the essence of the cinema distilled. |
| VarietyVariety StaffIt has some queasy scenes, but unclear progression and plodding direction give this an old-fashioned air. |
| CinefantastiqueSteve BiodrowskiA compelling and clinically brilliant combination of French art film and shock horror. |
| Zap2it.comMichael SzymanskiTold with the surrealism of a Jean Cocteau film and with the fanciful style of "Metropolis" and Fritz Lang, this is a great classic that warrants discovery, or re-discovery! |
| The DissolveScott TobiasEyes Without A Face is a classic anomaly, out of step with its time (and any other), with mysteries that lingered long enough for critics finally to be intoxicated by them. |
| Total FilmJames MottramThe influence of Georges Franju's horror classic Eyes Without A Face looms large, more than half a century since its release. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumAs absurd and as beautiful as a fairy tale. |
| DVDJournal.comMark BourneIn its sedate, measured virtuosity, eloquently haunting imagery abuts the queasily naturalistic. It's both beautiful and grisly, lyric and sinister. |
| n+1A.S. HamrahFranju and Shüfftan denature these trees. Without leaves they are skeletal, bodies without flesh. The sounds of nonmigratory birds and chained dogs barking dot the soundtrack like the trees line the picture... |