{"id":16535,"date":"2011-11-12T22:06:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T06:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=16535"},"modified":"2011-11-12T23:23:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T07:23:56","slug":"eyes-without-a-face-george-franju-1960-france-italy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=16535","title":{"rendered":"Eyes Without A Face (George Franju, 1960): France\/ Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a title=\"Daniel M Harrington's reviews\" href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=1838\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Matthew Harrington<\/a>. Viewed at AFI Fest 2011.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetvideo.com.au\/blog\/2009\/02\/08\/eyesface.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Georges Franju&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0053459\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eyes Without A Face<\/a>, <\/em>is about Professor Genessier (Pierre<br \/>\nBrasseur), a famous Parisian plastic surgeon, is anguished that his reckless<br \/>\ndriving caused a car accident resulting in disfiguring his beautiful young daughter\u2019s face Christiane (Edith Scob). He becomes obsessed with the belief that he can restore her face and beauty, he wants his daughter and assistant\u00a0to have &#8220;Faith&#8221; in him\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>With the aid of his assistant, Louise (Alida Vali) they kidnap similar looking women to his daughter, to have their faces removed and to transplant\u00a0onto his daughter\u2019s face. Through many attempts, problems always seemed to come about and Christiane is starting to loose faith. Christiane has a conflict with identity because no matter what face she has or even if she is wearing a mask she doesn&#8217;t see her true self in the mirror.\u00a0The gore and violent\u00a0sequences\u00a0are\u00a0overturned\u00a0with beautiful and\u00a0delicate moments such as Christiane fluttering like a ghostly angel\u00a0around her mansion while wearing her white porcelain mask; also\u00a0the darkness of the professor\u2019s lab in contrast with scenes full of dreamy light as in the perfectly lit mansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Daniel Matthew Harrington. Viewed at AFI Fest 2011. In Georges Franju&#8217;s Eyes Without A Face, is about Professor Genessier (Pierre Brasseur), a famous Parisian plastic surgeon, is anguished that his reckless driving caused a car accident resulting in disfiguring his beautiful young daughter\u2019s face Christiane (Edith Scob). He becomes obsessed with the belief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afi-filmfest-2011","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}