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12/30/06
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La Moustache (2005)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:35
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: Though the premise may be modest on the surface, Carrere uses a man and his mustache that may or may not exist as a springboard into psychological suspense and unsettling questions.
Theatrical Release:May 24, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the mustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger... [More]
Starring: Emmanuelle Devos, Vincent Lindon, Hippolyte Girardot, Mathieu Amalric
Director: Emmanuel Carrere
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Reviews for La Moustache
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01/25/07
What does it all mean? We are never quite sure. All we learn from this relentless saga of mental and physical solitude are the many varieties of suffering one can endure when one feels alone in the universe.
05/31/06
Top CriticToo many narrative illogicalities make the 86 minutes seem long, despite two excellent performances and an intriguing premise.
08/04/05
La Moustache dissolves into a meandering annoyance that takes us from Paris to Hong Kong and back again.
05/26/06
Top Critican awfully rickety, hollow exercise in style over substance
06/30/06
As intelligently as Carrère handles this material, giving it just the right hint of distance and ambiguity, La Moustache tends to drift toward the mechanisms of the thriller.
09/22/06
The film's greatest disappointment: rendering the captivating, enigmatic, and oddly gorgeous Emmanuelle Devos into an unsympathetic character. For shame.
05/26/06
Spins an agitated mystery well beyond its minimalist starting point, offering up giant questions about sanity and identity on its trip from the bathroom mirror.
08/04/06
This narrative feature debut by Emmanuel Carrere, based on his own novel, is deliberately open-ended, but however one interprets the outcome, the film reminds us how fragile intimacy is.
05/31/06
It's all a bit like an Agatha Christie mystery whose final moments make it clear that none of the characters could have done it....If you can live with that, then don't miss it.
07/06/06
As with the recent French films Lemming and The Bridesmaid, La Moustache generates a high level of tension with the most mundane things.
11/17/06
Bristling with existential doubt and ennui . . . Carrère's half-nightmare, half-dream vision of one man's imprisonment in his own life remains satisfyingly unresolved and stubbornly unique.
02/11/07
It's a brief, simple film that never overreaches but, if you're into it, it raises fascinating questions about identity.
09/28/06
A shuddery, enigmatic study in psychological suspense.
09/28/06
A dizzying experiment, evocative and frustrating at the same time.
01/17/07
At its most stimulating, Moustache is a keen glimpse into a marriage that appears perfect on the surface but when examined shows its deficiencies.
09/26/05
The film is an unpretentious blank slate--almost totally without point but so unassuming it earns consideration.
05/16/06
An elegantly acted psychological puzzle, it's like watching a nervous breakdown from the inside out.
08/13/06
Top CriticThose looking for a good thriller should be pleased enough and those seeking a serious art film will get plenty of philosophy with their pretty pictures.
03/01/07
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