Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Vincent Lindon | ... | Marc Thiriez | |
Emmanuelle Devos | ... | Agnès Thiriez | |
Mathieu Amalric | ... | Serge Schaeffer | |
Hippolyte Girardot | ... | Bruno | |
Cylia Malki | ... | Samira | |
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Macha Polikarpova | ... | Nadia Schaeffer |
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Fantine Camus | ... | Lara Schaeffer |
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Frédéric Imberty | ... | Patron café |
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Brigitte Bémol | ... | Policière |
Denis Ménochet | ... | Serveur | |
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Franck Richard | ... | Chauffeur taxi |
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Elizabeth Marre | ... | Hôtesse Roissy |
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Teresa Li | ... | Caissière ferry-boat |
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Hin-Wai Au | ... | Contrôleur passeport |
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Gary Kuo Chan Chung | ... | Employé aéroport |
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? Written by poco loco
"The Moustache" is a comedy that, starting from the most trivial of pretexts, quickly turns into a true Kafkian nightmare. A man shaves his mustache. No one seems to notice, and in a surrealistic parody of male mid-life crisis this causes conflict, pain and uncertainty. But more and more threads come undone in the fabric of his reality.
Excellent self-adaptation of a short novel by Emmanuel Carrère, La Moustache delivers the spectator with much more than it promises, in these days a rare occurrence indeed. Vincent Lindon as the troubled protagonist is good and measured, and the movie has an excellent pace and nothing is overdone. Even the theme, a Philip Glass "Concerto pour violon et orchestre" could not be more effective. Will we ever see this movie in the USA? Maybe in a parallel reality.