A surgeon kidnaps pretty young women and uses experimental techniques to transplant their faces onto his daughter Christiane, who was horribly disfigured in a car accident for which her father feels he's responsible. Although his gruesome experiments are all failures, he refuses to stop his sadistic treatment, motivated by his unconditional paternal love. Eyes Without A Face ("Les Yeux sans Visage") is an unclassifiable film that is usually catalogued under horror. In its most extreme scenes, the movie is strikingly clinical and sterile, capable of changing radically from cruel to poetic.

Practical Info

• Date:
  2011-02-24
• Time:
  20h00
• Location:
  Cinema Nova

  3, rue d'Arenbergstraat
  1000 Bruxelles—Brussel
  + 32 (0)2 511 24 77
  http://www.nova-cinema.org

Background Info

• alt name:
  Eyes Without a Face
• year:
  1960
• director:
  Georges Franju
• country:
  France
• version:
  VO ST ANG/ OV ENG OT
• format:
  35mm
• duration:
  88'
• link:
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053459/