The film's greatest disappointment: rendering the captivating, enigmatic, and oddly gorgeous Emmanuelle Devos into an unsympathetic character. For shame.
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05/26/06
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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
An elegantly acted psychological puzzle, it's like watching a nervous breakdown from the inside out.
08/13/06
Top Critic...Recalls the "everyday suspense" films of Roman Polanski and the existential woe of Michelangelo Antonioni.
05/31/06
Leaps from a gripping identity thriller into a strange yet equally involving adventure about the bounds of self-knowledge and the incredible liberty of disregarding them.
08/25/06
Top CriticLa Moustache uses sly wit and foreboding to deconstruct notions of self in its portrait of a close shave with insanity.
08/05/05
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
An absorbing riddle posed in cool, matter-of-fact tones.
09/28/06
Top CriticA unique psychological drama with the tension of a whodunit.
06/25/06
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
What the movie lacks visually, it makes up for with the performances, especially by Lindon, who leads us on a journey we want to stick with even if we can't fully understand.
11/03/06
A dizzying experiment, evocative and frustrating at the same time.
01/17/07
Too many narrative illogicalities make the 86 minutes seem long, despite two excellent performances and an intriguing premise.
08/04/05
Those 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
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
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
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
Part absurdist comedy about the institution of marriage, part paranoid Kafkaesque fantasy, it’s a minor-key reverie on the way our own lives can sometimes feel alien to us.
07/06/06
an awfully rickety, hollow exercise in style over substance
06/30/06
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
Carrere playfully adapts his own novel for his feature debut and makes the interesting decision to show the film's events entirely through Marc's perspective.
07/07/06
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