Sunday 4 July & Sunday 25 July
15.00
Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage)
(Georges Franju, France/Italy 1960, 84')

George Franju Eyes Without a Face  1959

‘Eyes Without A Face is an anguish film. It’s a quieter mood than horror... more internal, more penetrating. It’s horror in homeopathic doses.’ – Georges Franju.

A young woman, her eyes untouched but the rest of her face ‘a vast open wound,’ has disappeared from a clinic after a terrible automobile accident. Meanwhile, her father, the celebrated Dr Genessier, lectures on the future possibilities of the heterograft, the transplanting of living tissue from one human being to another. Filled with elegant and poetic images that express longing, terror and despair, the film is meticulously calculated to create unease.

Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium

£3.50 (£2 concessions), booking recommended

Contains adult themes and violence

For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888

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