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。TV第6话再编集版。。歌莉娅(莎朗·斯通 Sharon Stone 饰)从小就是个脾气火爆个性叛逆的女孩,长大之后,她几乎是顺理成章地成为了“大哥的女人”。歌莉娅的男友凯文(杰瑞米·诺森 Jeremy Northam 饰)也不是盏省油的灯,一次意外中,他因犯罪即将面临牢狱之灾,仗义的歌莉娅挺身而出,代替凯文坐在了铁窗之后。
让歌莉娅没有想到的是,自己入狱没多久,凯文就将她抛在了脑后,他不仅对她不闻不问,甚至连一次都没有去探望过她。出狱后,歌莉娅彻底看清了凯文无耻的嘴脸,决心与其一刀两断。之后,歌莉娅遇见了全家惨遭黑道灭口的男孩尼基(Jean-Luke Figueroa 饰),不知是出于什么原因,歌迪亚救下了尼基,开始了同他一起浪迹天涯的生活。。