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Nov 12, 2015Nursebob rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Director Georges Franju plays this wickedly camp horror story completely straight making you feel the doctor’s burden of guilt and Christiane’s growing sense of anguish as all attempts to make her “normal” again end in disaster. Beautifully staged with shadows and staircases evoking more pathos than tension and a poignant musical score which underlines the film’s overall sense of sadness and loss. As an aside the rather intense surgical scenes, shocking for 1960, threw European censors into a tizzy and reportedly had people fainting in the aisles at its Edinburgh premiere.