Ok, you could call this movie "Heads without a brain", when you look at the operation-scene for example (the skin is taken off the face in one part!). But this is not the point.
"Les yeux sans visage" is a bizarre dream, a funny finger of the horror-genre, an absolute classic, as disturbing as unique! You smell the odour of the mask in every scene.
One of the reasons for this mighty effect is the musical score: All of the themes are composed in flowing three-four times; varied orchestrated: flutes, bassoons, vibraphones... Powerful and sensitive. Just everything you need for a lovely, little film-music. But this is one of the most stunning and implicative soundtracks ever composed for a horror-movie!
It was not very intelligent to show Edith Scobs real face in the two scenes after the operation. It would have been so much more mystical, when she had used her mask while the whole film.
Yes: the film airs slowly, very slowly, but not slothful! And when suggestive pictures and a haunting cast relate such a brilliant story, it is clear: an unforgettable, obsessive movie-experience.
And Alida Valli is outstanding!
"Les yeux sans visage" is a bizarre dream, a funny finger of the horror-genre, an absolute classic, as disturbing as unique! You smell the odour of the mask in every scene.
One of the reasons for this mighty effect is the musical score: All of the themes are composed in flowing three-four times; varied orchestrated: flutes, bassoons, vibraphones... Powerful and sensitive. Just everything you need for a lovely, little film-music. But this is one of the most stunning and implicative soundtracks ever composed for a horror-movie!
It was not very intelligent to show Edith Scobs real face in the two scenes after the operation. It would have been so much more mystical, when she had used her mask while the whole film.
Yes: the film airs slowly, very slowly, but not slothful! And when suggestive pictures and a haunting cast relate such a brilliant story, it is clear: an unforgettable, obsessive movie-experience.
And Alida Valli is outstanding!