https://vo.rs/tags/georges-franju/Latest from the Georges Franju desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/eyes-without-a-face-the-most-beautiful-horror-film-ever-made/<p>Georges Franju made a film in 1960 about a surgeon who peels the faces off living women, and somehow it is one of the most beautiful things ever committed to celluloid. <em>Les Yeux sans visage</em> — <em>Eyes Without a Face</em> — should by rights be lurid. Its plot is pure grand guignol: a mad doctor, a disfigured daughter, a cellar of captives, a graft that must be renewed as the flesh keeps dying. Franju takes that pulp and films it as a lullaby, in silvered black and white, to the sound of a waltz, until the horror and the beauty become the same substance and you cannot separate them without destroying both.</p>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0000