am I imagining this bit?
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Artemis-9 — 17 years ago(March 27, 2009 04:46 AM)
I believe I saw the director's cut of "Les yeux sans visage", shown witha running time of 88 minutes, in the Spanish version "Ojos sin rostro" (French dialogue, and Spanish subtitles).
Both scenes are in the film, and make sense to me.
However, I've seen a Spanish source mentioning the film runs at 95 minutes:
http://vagos.wamba.com/showthread.php?p=3593103
I've not read much about the film until now, so I can't say. An interesting piece of news is that there will be a second dvd release in France next May 5, 2009. Let's hope for the best!
What does not make sense to me is why - after a century of laws protecting the rights of the so-called intelectual property - a movie director is not entitled to the safeguard of the message he wanted to pass to his adult, informed public without being cut, and re-cut, by censors or so-called video and dvd producers.
This is a powerful film, decades ahead of its time, exposing the dark face of aesthetic surgery, society allowing scientists to go a step too far, and human beings being used as guinea-pigs. I'm afraid that in real life it's not the bad guys who end up being trampled and bitten by mad dogs. -
bokibongbing — 16 years ago(January 13, 2010 04:53 PM)
Damn! These scenes are missing in the DVD I have. The running time is 86 mins and it's released by Gaumont/Second Sight.
We also wondered what happened between her running up the stairs and then suddenly ending up on the ground outside the window. -
twelvepointnine — 15 years ago(June 06, 2010 05:23 PM)
Her jump is not shown. You hear a scream and the doctor (or maybe his assistant) enter a room that has an open window. In the next shot you see the liveless body of the girl from the room's window, followed by a close-up of her masked face.
Chaos reigns -
jrglaves-smith — 14 years ago(September 16, 2011 02:31 AM)
There are definitely two versions of the film, one of which has a close-up of the bloody face.
I was in a Paris repetory cinema once. In such places where they screen several fims a day the film cans are often piled up in the foyer as they have nowhere else to put them. I noticed that the copy of 'Les Yeux sans Visage' was labelled 'surgical version'. -
Zipper69 — 13 years ago(April 11, 2012 02:18 PM)
The version shown on TCM last night had both scenes.
There seems to be some misinterpretation of what happens with Edna. She has awakened, tried to escape via the garage, is driven back indoors when the doctor arrives, she runs up flights of stairs, higher and higher until she finds Christiane's room, seeing the "naked face" makes her scream and with no further choice she leaps through the window NOT to kill herself but as once last chance of freedom..
Come on lads, bags of swank! -
gerbilstunts — 9 years ago(December 18, 2016 09:05 AM)
Yep that's what I saw too.
She escapes from the room and is subsequently followed upstairs by the Professor. As he reaches the top(?) floor he hears a scream and enters the room to find the window open. The camera then shows her on the ground below bandaged, wide eyed and dead as a dodo.
The only time she saw Christiane's face was pre-op. If there's another version though then I'd happily watch this again.