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LES YEUX SANS VISAGE (a.k.a. EYES WITHOUT A FACE)
Director: Georges Franju
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob, Juliette Mayniel
Music by Portishead
Video edited by CFJ

Plot: A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Genessier (Brasseur), helped by his assistant Louise (Valli), kidnaps nice young women. He removes their faces and tries to graft them onto his beloved daughter Christiane (Scob), whose face has been entirely spoiled in a car crash. All the experiments fail, and the victims die, but Genessier keeps trying, while Christiane comes up against a dilemma....

'Hunter' is probably my favorite track on Portishead's Third album. The song strangely reminded me of this sad and beautiful film and made me make this video. Some people may consider it a weird horror movie, but actually it has a certain poetic feel to it, which fascinates me a lot. Maurice Jarre's score was brilliant, but I felt 'Hunter' also fit the mood of the film perfectly as if it's an original soundtrack.

Edith Scob, heroine with a mask, is not a leading actress of the film (which is credited to Alida Valli, who "hunts" girls for the operation) because her face does not appear throughout almost the entire film. But this miracle masterpiece would never have been carried out without Scob's astonishing features like glasswork.

Originally uploaded on my former channel on May 5, 2008.

Watch also: Portishead - Wild Machine Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2czi55k2ZA