冰川融化,海族入侵。西方众神统治人类,华夏无神成为众矢之的。直到巨型石像划过星空彼岸砸入九州大地,赵飞宇横空穿越而来……。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。Walter Neff(弗莱德·麦克莫瑞 Fred MacMurray 饰)是一个成功的保险代理人,他在夜里回到办公室,开始在一个录音机上诉说他的故事......
Neff为了取得Dietrichson先生的保险代理权,来到了他的家中,Dietrichson先生不在,Neff遇到了Dietrichson先生的新妻子Phyllis Dietrichson(芭芭拉·斯坦威克 Barbara Stanwyck 饰)。美丽的Phyllis让Neff感到不自然,而她也开始说起她的丈夫的诸多不好之处。在第二次拜访中,Neff终于控制不住自己的欲望,愿意参与Phyllis的杀夫计划。Neff计划在Dietrichson先生坐火车的时候制造他失足摔下的假象,以骗取“双重保险”。一切进行的非常顺利,Dietrichson先生死掉了,Neff和Phyllis两人的爱情和金钱似乎都有了保障。然而,Neff的好友保险调查员Barton Keyes (爱德华·罗宾逊 Edward G. Robinson 饰)却觉得事有蹊跷,开始调查整个事件......
本片改编自James M. Cain于1943年出版的同名小说,由导演比利·怀尔德和侦探小说作家雷蒙德·钱德勒共同编剧,获第17届奥斯卡最佳影片等7项提名。。