One day, thinking that it will make your wife and friends smile, you shave off the moustache that you have had for the last ten years. No one notices or, even worse, everyone pretends not to notice and your smile soon fades.
Before being wiped off your face. You insist but people tell you that you've never had a moustache. Are you going mad? Are people trying to make you think you are? Or has something in the world's order gone awry at your expense?
Adapting his own 1986 novel, Emmanuel Carrère – whose books Class Trip and The Adversary became Cannes Competition titles by Claude Miller and Nicole Garcia, respectively – provides a feast of sustained tension as the man's wife and his closest friends deny that he ever had a moustache. Viewers who like their conclusions tidy may rebel, but those who relish outstanding performances in the service of an intriguing idea will be entertained. The film won the Label Europa Cinemas Prize at Directors' Fortnight in
Cannes.
一天,你滿心以為給妻子和朋友開個玩笑,把蓄了十年的鬍子刮掉。但可惜完全被人忽視了,或更可悲的是每個人都假裝看不到,很快,你得意的笑容不見了,笑臉再也掛不住。你堅持,但所有人都跟你說你從未蓄過鬍子。莫非你神經錯亂?是否所有人都想令你以為自己瘋掉了?又或者,是因為你的緣故而搞亂了世界的某種秩序?
本片是導演艾曼雷.卡雷爾改編自他自己一九八六年出版的小說。他的另外兩本小說《 Class Trip 》及《 The Adversary 》曾分別被葛羅特.米勒及妮歌.加西亞兩位導演改編成電影並先後成為康城影展的參選影片。在本片中,因為男人的妻子和老友否認他曾經蓄鬍子而令整個故事維持在緊張的氣氛中。
喜歡結局完整的觀眾可能會感到不高興,但欣賞引人入勝的故事和精湛演技的觀眾則會看得津津有味。本片在康城影展的導演雙週中奪得歐洲電影標籤大獎。
Source: The 34th French Cinepanorama, Hong Kong。张驰和林夏曾经是同学,林夏与丈夫因家庭琐事争吵,张驰邀请她一同去参加老同学聚会放松心情。连续几年没参加同学聚会的林夏面对老同学们的种种“关心”,为避免误会沉默回应,任由大家猜测自己参加聚会的动机。殊不知,每位同学都抱着自己的“秘密”,窥探着别人的故事。组织者高明指望着在聚会中拉拢老同学给自己的民宿解决资金上的燃眉之急,老班长卫超夫妇看似光鲜亮丽,两人却有难言之隐。曾经乐观的铁三角也因种种矛盾分崩离析。更别提林夏还见到了马上要移民出国的初恋情人……曾经的老同学们还能否回到当初纯真的感情?离开了校园是否还能回到最初的故事?中年危机是否能够安全度过?。南清市缉毒大队队长叶其辉收到卧底警员线报,本市最大毒贩团伙——“幽灵”组织准备倾销存货,潜逃海外,与其交易的对象则是K国大毒枭巴青。
叶其辉紧急部署抓捕行动,未曾想一切竟是“幽灵”组织为排查卧底安排的虚假交易。抓捕行动失败,数名警员牺牲,卧底周虹也陷入险境。
通过缜密调查,叶其辉断定“幽灵”组织幕后主脑是盲女林樱以及孪生妹妹林慧。叶其辉立下军令状,三日之后收网,誓将“幽灵”组织和巴青一网打尽。。