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- 2006
- Not Rated
- The Cinema Guild
- 1 h 27 m
- 2006
- Not Rated
- The Cinema Guild
- 1 h 27 m
Summary Adapted from his own novel, Emmanuel Carrere directs an engrossing existential thriller, a story about a man who inadvertently loses himself. [Cinema Guild]
Directed By: Emmanuel Carrère
Written By: Jérôme Beaujour, Emmanuel Carrère
- 2006
- Not Rated
- The Cinema Guild
- 1 h 27 m
- 2006
- Not Rated
- The Cinema Guild
- 1 h 27 m
La Moustache
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Summary Adapted from his own novel, Emmanuel Carrere directs an engrossing existential thriller, a story about a man who inadvertently loses himself. [Cinema Guild]
Directed By: Emmanuel Carrère
Written By: Jérôme Beaujour, Emmanuel Carrère
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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82% Positive
14 Reviews
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18% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
71
82% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
18% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Emmanuel Carrère's witty, elegant La Moustache is a deliciously unsettling, beautifully sustained enigma, a film of much beauty and flawless performances, especially from Vincent Lindon in one of his most demanding roles.
Elegant and enjoyably disorienting.
A successful novelist and restrained actor's director, Carrére makes the transformation of a silly marital argument into a cosmic upheaval look easy, and profound as well.
La Moustache recalls the "everyday suspense" films of Roman Polanski and the existential woe of Michelangelo Antonioni, but it isn't as strange or penetrating as the former, or as artfully shot as the latter.
The pleasure of La Moustache is that it doesn't feel the need to explain itself at every turn. 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.
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.
Have Marc's friends tricked him with a conspiracy of silence, or was that mustache a growth only in his mind? The filmmaker has said there is no intended meaning to any of this, so search for it for your own amusement.
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Production Company
Les Films des Tournelles,
Pathé Renn Productions,
France 3 Cinéma,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Cofimage 16,
Uni Etoile 2,
La Région Île-de-France,
Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep),
Canal+,
Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma,
TPS Star
Release Date May 24, 2006
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating Not Rated
Awards
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Chlotrudis Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
