La moustache (2005)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Emmanuel Carrère

Writers:

Jérôme Beaujour (writer)
Emmanuel Carrère (novel)

Release Date:

6 July 2005 (Belgium)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery

Plot:

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...

Plot Keywords:

Mustache | Hong Kong | Shaving | Escape | Bathtub Scene

Awards:

4 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Vincent Lindon	...	Marc Thiriez
Emmanuelle Devos	...	Agnès Thiriez
Mathieu Amalric	...	Serge Schaeffer
Hippolyte Girardot	...	Bruno
Cylia Malki	...	Samira
Macha Polikarpova	...	Nadia Schaeffer
Fantine Camus	...	Lara Schaeffer
Frédéric Imberty	...	Patron café
Brigitte Bémol	...	Policière
Denis Menochet	...	Serveur
Franck Richard	...	Chauffeur taxi
Elizabeth Marre	...	Hôtesse Roissy
Teresa Li	...	Caissière ferry-boat
Au Hin Wai	...	Contrôleur passeport
Kwok Chan Chung	...	Employé aéroport

Also Known As:

The Moustache (Australia) (TV title)

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | English | Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Brazil:18 | Sweden:7 | Finland:K-7 | Argentina:13 | Hungary:14 | France:U | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva)

Filming Locations:

Aéroport de Paris-Roissy-Charles de Gaulle - BP 20102, Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise, France

Company:

Les Films des Tournelles

Goofs:

Continuity: In several of the scenes it appears that Lindon has a small cut on his forehead - but it keeps disappearing and reappearing randomly.

Bad Hair Day

This movie is a prime example of how the simplest things can mushroom out of control. Architect Marc (Vincent Lindon) has had a moustache since he was knee high to a blueprint and it is, he feels, part of him, then he takes it into his head to speculate on just how much he is identified via the moustache. He starts by asking his live-in lover Agnes (Manu Devos) whether she would still fancy him sans moustache; since she's only known him with it she can't answer. So, out comes the razor and THEN comes the uneasiness that segues into genuine fright. Not only does Devos not notice the difference but neither do their friends and his colleagues at work. We are now on the fringes of a Kafkaesque scenario which isn't really resolved satisfactorily. For reasons that eluded me Marc, by now convinced that Devos has some hidden agenda he can't fathom, lights out for Hong Kong literally in just the clothes he stands up in and spends a few days - weeks, months? - riding the ferry before Devos shows up, or does she? For one thing how did she know where he was and/or track him down to the fleabag where's he's taken a room. Lots of food for thought here and the acting is out of the right bottle if anybody asks you.