这是一个有关于爱、责任、谎言的真实故事。 阿里生活在一个由伊拉克移民到澳大利亚的穆斯林牧师家庭。为了迎合自己的家庭,也为了追随自己的内心,阿里一直活在两个不同的世界中。他在没有注册的前提下进入了医学院学习,尽管早已有了许配的结婚对象,他还是奋不顾身地爱上了另一个女孩。随着婚期的将近,阿里的两个截然不同的世界也处于被曝光的边缘。。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。故事背景描述在1967年的六七暴动,还在英国殖民下的香港,一名大学生、单身的母亲与年轻女儿,三人错综复杂的感情故事。有趣的是杨凡导演在1965年于香港定居,两年后,香港就爆发了大规模的左派抗争事件,根据 Variety 的报导,杨凡表示该部电影正是一封送给香港与电影的情书。。