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。患有先天复杂性心脏病的以薰(陈怡蓉 饰)从小就跟体育绝缘,每逢体育课她都被老师安排在一旁休息。看着同学们在操场上蹦蹦跳跳,以薰心里倍感孤独。幸有同班同学晴川(许绍洋 饰)经常陪在以薰身边,她才聊以解慰。转眼间,晴川一家要移民美国了,出国前晴川带着以薰来到了他的秘密基地——一个种满薰衣草的废气花坊,晴川交给以薰一个装满薰衣草的瓶子,相约在以薰20岁生日那天两人回到小学校门前重逢。
时光飞逝,长大后的以薰在一家花房工作,同事兼好友小童(王建龙 饰)一直暗恋着她,只是以薰一直在守候童年的爱情。以薰20岁的生日快到了,这天她从电视上认出了国外归来的偶像LEO就是她等候多年的晴川!这时LEO正在举办一个名为“寻找薰衣草恋人”的个唱,脸红心跳的以薰又惊又怕,惊喜的是自己终于见到了初恋情人,害怕的是不知晴川找的薰衣草恋人是否就是自己。这晚在LEO的演唱会上,以薰鼓足勇气和小童一起前往找寻童年的恋人。。When three women are brutally murdered in four nights, private detective John Duval, ex-lieutenant commander in Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for the sexual killer stalking Portsmouth's silent hours.。