Director · Screenwriter

Claude Sautet

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13:00: average
26 min: in total

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Classe tous risques

Claude Sautet · 1960

Claude Sautet’s 1960 crime film follows a fugitive gangster who returns to Paris with his sons, seeking help from former associates now settled into bourgeois comfort. As old loyalties fray and new alliances prove fragile, his attempt to secure a future ends in isolation and inevitability. Shot with restraint by Ghislain Cloquet and scored with quiet melancholy by Georges Delerue, it is a study in moral erosion, not spectacle.

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Eyes Without a Face

Georges Franju, Claude Sautet · 1960

Eyes Without a Face (1960) is a French arthouse horror film directed by Georges Franju, following a plastic surgeon who kidnaps women to graft their faces onto his disfigured daughter. Shot by Eugen Schüfftan and scored by Maurice Jarre, it sustains a tone of poetic anguish rather than visceral terror. Its restrained performances, deliberate pacing, and clinical visuals have earned it retrospective acclaim as a landmark of moral and aesthetic horror.