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。"一支可畏的邪恶大军,身系着统治与毁灭,如疾风般穿过星际之门,威胁着地球上的每一个人。拉尔已死,但蛇神阿波菲斯正悄悄抬头,他比拉尔更为狡猾、残酷,无情地渴望权力。 杰克·奥尼尔上尉自退休中被召返,领导一项穿越星际之门追捕阿波菲斯和他的军队的远征任务;但这支搜索、摧毁小队将面临对勇气最极至的考验--如果奥尼尔和他的队员无法在72小时内赶回他们将被围困,他们的命运会永远封锁在此……"。巴德里(瓦伦·达万 Varun Dhawan 饰)是衔着金汤匙出生的千金大少爷,幸运的他什么都不用做,就可以享受有些人可能一辈子都无法过上的优越生活。巴德里向来认为自己是一个非常富有魅力的男人,没有任何一个女人能够逃脱他布下的情网,直到有一天,一个名为维德西(阿莉雅·布哈特 Alia Bhatt 饰)的女人出现在了他的生命中。 维德西是一个非常独立自主的女性,一直希望能够成为一名飞行员,她坚定的认为自己的未来应该用自己的双手去创造,不愿意沾男人一丁点的便宜。就是这样两个出生和个性大相径庭的人,在命运的作弄之下他们走到了一起,如果想要维持这段感情,他们都必须放弃一部分曾经认为的生命中非常重要的信条。。