Les yeux sans visage
A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident
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| Format: | Unknown |
| Language: | French English |
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[New York, NY] :
Criterion Collection,
[2004]
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| Edition: | Fully restored DVD ed |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
260 |
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| Summary: | A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident |
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| Item Description: | Based on a novel by Jean Redon Originally released as a motion picture in 1959 Special features: Blood of the beasts (Le sang des bêtes), Georges Franju's 1949 short documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris; theatrical trailers; stills gallery; "Le fantastique," Georges Franju discussing fantastic cinema, horror and the terror in everyday life; excerpt from Les grands-pères du crime, a documentary featuring writers Boileau and Narcejac Widescreen (1.66:1) presentation |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in |
| Format: | DVD, region 1 |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Eugen Shuftan ; editor, Gilbert Natot ; music, Maurice Jarre |
| ISBN: | 0780028880 9780780028883 |