Criterion Collection, 1960, 90 minutes
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In director Georges Franju's ultimate artful horror movie, serial killer/plastic surgeon Dr. Genessier has his reasons for instructing his assistant Louise to kidnap pretty young women: His daughter Christiane, horribly disfigured by an accident he caused, hasn't got a face - so the bad doctor keeps trying, unsuccessfully, to graft his victims' faces onto poor Christiane.
Louise, the malevolent assistant, is played to the hilt by Alida Valli, whom you will remember from such important film classics as The Third Man and The Paradine Case. As Christiane, Edith Scob is the expressive eyes of the title. She lives in painful isolation behind a mask, hidden from the outside world, where she is believed dead (except her onetime fiance has his suspicions).
Your heart will go out to Christiane when she visits the kennel of big, beautiful dogs also imprisoned by her demented father. There's a Great Dane down there in that horrible dungeon, and a Dogue de Bordeaux, among other noble canines - and watching these gentle giants give Christiane the love no one else will is a high point of the film (as is its liberating ending, in which the dogs play a key role).
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