| Directed by |
Emmanuel Carrère |
| Screenplay |
Emmanuel Carrère |
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Jérôme Beaujour |
| Cinematography |
Patrick Blossier |
| Sound |
Laurent Poirier |
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| Music |
Philip Glass |
| Production design |
Françoise Dupertuis |
| Costume design |
Elisabeth Tavernier |
| Editing |
Camille Cotte |
| Produced by |
Anne-Dominique Toussaint |
| Cast |
Vincent Lindon |
| |
Emmanuelle Devos |
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Mathieu Amalric |
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Hippolyte Girardot |
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Cylia Malki |
Marc has had a moustache for years. He has photos to prove it. One day, on a whim, he decides to shave it off. He waits with expectation to see how his wife and friends will react. But when nobody does, he starts to get irritated. Finally, he decides to put an end to their joke. But then his wife tells him that he never had a moustache!
The comedy turns into a Kafkian nightmare that causes Marc to question his very existence as he comes to the understanding that he is living, or has been living, in a parallel reality. His subsequent journey to find an explanation takes him half way around the world to Hong Kong and the discovery that the past and present are as indefinite as the future.
Adapted from his own novel, The Moustache is director Emmanuel Carrère’s second feature film.
Qu’est-ce que tu dirais si je me rasais la moustache ? demande Marc à Agnès. Je ne sais pas. Je t’aime avec mais je t’ai jamais connu sans.” Elle sort un moment faire des courses, le laissant devant le miroir de la sale de bain. Et il le fait. Comme ça: par jeu, pour voir la tête qu’elle fera, pour changer un petit quelque chose dans leur vie heureuse et sans histoire.
Elle rentre et ne fait aucune remarque. Le plus drôle, c’est qu’elle a vraiment l’air de ne rien remarquer. Les autres non plus. Amis, collègues de travail le lendemain, personne ne remarque rien.
Marc se retrouve donc seul contre tous, seul convaincu que jusqu’à la veille il portait une moustache, seul à la voir sur ses photos. Etre seul contre tous à croire, à voir, à se rappeler quelque chose, ca s’appelle être fou. Alors quoi? Une farce collective? Un complot ?
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