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Commissioned by the French Ministry of Defense as an advertisement for the military, Hôtel des invalides is Franju’s cunning and subversive portrait of the Army Museum located within the titular gold-domed palace in Paris. Employing what was to become his signature blend of lyricism and horror, Franju deceptively deploys his anti-militarist views into an indictment against the idealization of war, swiftly subverting the pretext of the film. His iconoclastic and ironic approach was deemed a sacrilege and the film was temporary banned. Voiced by veteran actor Michel Simon, the film uses a music score by Maurice Jarre to underline the tragic contradictions haunting the Hôtel des invalides, where guns and glory accompany ‘eyes without a face.’ “[W]hat is probably not only his finest film, but by what may well be the greatest film made in France since the end of the war, bar none” (Cynthia Grenier, Sight and Sound).
Franju's third film commissioned by the French government, Hôtel des Invalides (1951), was a look at life inside a veterans' hospital. The film was commissioned as a tribute to the hospital and the War Museum, but Franju turned it into a film against the glorification of militarism. Franju later said that Hôtel des Invalides was his favorite of his three "slaughter" films.
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