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La Moustache
2005 Drama / Mystery
Review
La Moustache is one of those film d’auteur oddities which is
totally lacking in logic and coherence and yet still manages to be
utterly compelling. Its underlying themes, textual ambiguities and enigmatic poetry evoke
something of the work of Marguerite Duras
and Alain Resnais. This is the second film to be directed by
Emmanuel Carrère, one-time journalist and successful writer,
based on one of his own novels. Carrère made his
directorial debut with the acclaimed documentary Retour à Kotelnitch (2003).
Two of his other novels have previously been adapted for French cinema:
La Classe de neige (1998) and L’Adversaire
(2002).What makes La Moustache so fascinating is that it brazenly acknowledges its narrative inconsistencies and presents these in a way which forces us to accept them as reality. It is as if two parallel universes have somehow managed to get themselves entwined, so that the central character (superbly portrayed by Vincent Lindon) finds himself flitting between two contradictory realities, struggling to make sense of it all. (You can get much the same effect by knocking back half a dozen bottles of Bacardi Breezer.) If the film says anything it is that there is no such thing as a concrete objective reality – everything is a matter of interpretation, nothing is certain, and perhaps none of it really does exist. We are such stuff as dreams are made on (Emmanuelle Devos doubly so). © filmsdefrance.com 2008 Write a review for this film...User Comments
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Director:
Emmanuel Carrère
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Hippolyte Girardot, Cylia Malki Synopsis
One evening, whilst getting ready for a dinner date, Marc takes
the momentous decision to shave off his moustache. To his
surprise, his wife Agnès fails to see any change in his
appearance, and neither do the two friends they spend the evening
with. When Marc later challenges his wife, she is adamant
that she has never seen him with a moustache. In desperation,
Marc searches through their collection of photos and finds a set of
holiday snaps in which he clearly has a moustache. But before he
can show the photographs to Agnès they mysteriously
disappear. Is Marc going mad or is he the victim of an
elaborate intrigue...?
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