Sautey’s Eyes Without a face is a surprisingly short French film that packs a lot into the small punch. Seems we have a doctor who is also a leading edge scientist, who is pushing the boundaries of skin grafting and re-attachment.
Now, it may look like his methods and reasons are altruistic, but its really all about appeasing his own guilt. He caused a car accident that literally destroyed his daughter‘s entire face. His goal in life is to repair the damage He’s done. oddly, he has very little emotion regarding it. He moves as if he is a machine and often a mindless one with one singular goal.
He doesn’t seem sad, he doesn’t seem angry, he doesn’t seem upset. Often one wonders if it’s more about his own successes and marketing himself; it is less about how he feels regarding his daughter. Because how she feels walking around in constant agonizing pain with a horrible ceramic-seeming mask that makes her look like Tisa Farrow in Zombie; scratch that, Tisa had less emotional movement to her face than the mask.
Yes, I’m joking.
Anyway, as stated, the doc’s daughter is clearly in pain constantly, emotionally and physically, and the doc has no regard or time for that. Obviously people aren’t going to donate their face to the cause, so the doctor has to take them, and that is where the complications and the true horror set in.
This is a wonderfully paced film. It’s only 90 minutes, so it motors by, and all performers are very good. I could’ve done without the score, which seemed like it was largely derived from a circus.
Eyes Without a Face comes Highly recommended. For 1960, this one really is kind of edgy as well.
Coincidentally, the 1984 classic Billy Idol song eyes without a face is absolutely atrocious, minus the Steve Stevens riff- driven bridge halfway through. I just had to say that.
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