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。姜国文是姜家三姐妹的养父,含辛茹苦将三姐妹抚养长大,没想到杨大伟从中破坏,导致姜国文与三姐妹关系破裂。心灰意冷的姜国文决定躺入生命舱休眠,为女儿的事业“生命延长计划”做出最后的贡献……。本部影片讲述老妇人安吉拉(黛纽塔·辛波斯卡 Danuta Szaflarska饰)在临去世前几天与世隔绝的日常生活。这冷清孤单的世界里,既有她对死亡的恐惧,也有她记忆中曾经的幸福与梦想。与老人相伴的只有她唤作“Phlia”的小狗,安吉拉喃喃自语,自问自答。她一心挂念着自己的儿子,可最终也没能相见。在死亡悄然逼近的时候,安吉拉总是望向窗外的秋千,好像回到了从前的快乐日子。在宁静的摇曳着怀旧情怀的黑白光影里,影片默默地记录着老人最后的弥留时光。
影片荣获2007年波兰电影节观众奖、最佳女主角、最佳音响、影评人奖。。