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La moustache

France

2005

87 Min
Color
1.85:1
Cantonese, English, French
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DIR Emmanuel Carrère

PROD Anne-Dominique Toussaint

SCR Jérôme Beaujour, Emmanuel Carrère

DP Patrick Blossier

CAST Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Hippolyte Girardot, Cylia Malki, Macha Polikarpova, Fantine Camus, Frédéric Imberty, Brigitte Bémol, Denis Ménochet, Jérôme Bertin

ED Camille Cotte

PROD DES Françoise Dupertuis

MUSIC Philip Glass

SOUND Laurent Poirier

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs): Label Europa Cinemas, Edinburgh (Rosebud), Stockholm, Mar del Plata (Out of Competition)

Synopsis

Marc is sitting in his bath one morning and asks his wife, “how would you feel if I shaved off my mustache?” She doesn’t think it’s a great idea, for the 15 years they’ve been married, she’s never known him without his ‘stache. He shaves it off anyway, but when he sees his wife, she doesn’t notice, neither do their friends at dinner that night, neither do his co-workers. Marc finally flips out, shouts at everyone, tells them he’s tired of their little joke, and what do they really think. His wife and co-workers are appalled, what is he talking about, he’s never had a mustache. In fact, he’s imagining other things as well, or is he? —IMDb

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Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carrère (born in Paris on 9 December 1957) is a French author, screenwriter and director. He is the son of Louis Édouard Carrère, often known as Louis Carrère d’Encausse after his wife’s pen name, and French historian Hélène Carrère d’Encausse.

Carrère studied at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (better known as Sciences Po). Much of his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, centers around the primary themes of the interrogation of identity, the development of illusion and the direction of reality. Several of his books have been made into films; in 2005, he personally directed the film adaptation of his novel La Moustache. He was the president of the jury of the book Inter 2003.

He was scheduled to be part of the jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in May. He has been announced as a member of the jury for the Cinéfoundation and Short Films sections of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. —Wikipedia 

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7Dec12

Pirandellian.

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CABKNY

24Jul12

I love this movie. I do. I'm not scared to admit it.

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aperian

25Jul11

Thin plot, good performances. I understand the desire to be ambiguous, but a little more would have been nice.

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lina

31May11

too bad, the film is I think the adaptation of a terrific short story by Guy de Maupassant.

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By Beneezy on March 12, 2010

(Friday / March 12, 2010 / 2:35pm)

“La Moustache” is a voyage of finding the meaning of oneself. A man filled with confusion and mistrust attempting to determine the truth, spins out of control…  read review

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