EYES WITHOUT A FACE Guest Artistic Director

Of all the mad doctors that the cinema has given us, Dr. Genessier (Pierre Brasseur) in EYES WITHOUT A FACE is the one who has most elements in common with Dr. Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) in THE SKIN I LIVE IN, although Dr. Frankenstein is on echo common to both films. After a review of my cinematic memory, I decided to ovoid all the gory aspects in the story of THE SKIN I LIVE IN and tend more towards the lyricism and elegance of EYES WITHOUT A FACE. It’s the only conscious reference I acknowledge The beauty and originality of the film that Franju mode in 1960 ore still effective today , but it would be impossible to film the story now without falling into anachronisms. Dr. Genessier, helped by his faithful accomplice Louise (Alida Valli), kidnaps beautiful young girls in order to remove their faces and transplant them onto his daughter, who lost hers in a traffic accident. In 1960 , this could only be done in the most anticipatory fiction, yet nowadays a face transplant is real and possible . In Spain, nine operations of this kind hove been carried out in the lost year. In my script, I attributed three such successful interventions to the character played by Antonio Banderas. The skin is the largest organ in the human body, and the face is the port most