为搭乘“线上经济”的快车,象牙山又刮起强劲的“网络风”。谁能想到王大拿与杨晓燕的婚烟会隔着手机屏拉警报?而F4组合谢广坤、刘能、赵四和王老七趁机也起幺蛾子,王小蒙和刘英难免又入坑。宋富贵和宋晓峰互使连环套,哪是翁婿?分明是冤家。小山村里锅边炕沿的故事又会带给我们怎样的欢乐?。26岁的青年安德鲁(扎克·布拉夫 Zach Braff 饰)独自在洛杉矶打拼9年,他志愿成为一名演员,不过时至今日仍默默无名,平常依靠在餐馆打工维持营生。一通电话,将安德鲁带回阔别已久的新泽西老家。多年来,他因某些原因与家人绝少联系,常年服用抗抑郁药物又使得他对周遭的一切都漠不关心,即便如今日,瘫痪多年的母亲意外去世。在故乡,他重新见到身为精神科医生的父亲以及当年的狐朋狗友,一切似乎没变,一切有发生了很大改变。
在父亲的建议下,安德鲁前往医院诊疗困扰自己多时头痛,却在此结识了美丽但有些神经质的女孩萨曼(娜塔莉·波曼 饰),有如死水的绝望生活由此发生了转变……。One day, thinking that it will make your wife and friends smile, you shave off the moustache that you have had for the last ten years. No one notices or, even worse, everyone pretends not to notice and your smile soon fades.
Before being wiped off your face. You insist but people tell you that you've never had a moustache. Are you going mad? Are people trying to make you think you are? Or has something in the world's order gone awry at your expense?
Adapting his own 1986 novel, Emmanuel Carrère – whose books Class Trip and The Adversary became Cannes Competition titles by Claude Miller and Nicole Garcia, respectively – provides a feast of sustained tension as the man's wife and his closest friends deny that he ever had a moustache. Viewers who like their conclusions tidy may rebel, but those who relish outstanding performances in the service of an intriguing idea will be entertained. The film won the Label Europa Cinemas Prize at Directors' Fortnight in
Cannes.
一天,你滿心以為給妻子和朋友開個玩笑,把蓄了十年的鬍子刮掉。但可惜完全被人忽視了,或更可悲的是每個人都假裝看不到,很快,你得意的笑容不見了,笑臉再也掛不住。你堅持,但所有人都跟你說你從未蓄過鬍子。莫非你神經錯亂?是否所有人都想令你以為自己瘋掉了?又或者,是因為你的緣故而搞亂了世界的某種秩序?
本片是導演艾曼雷.卡雷爾改編自他自己一九八六年出版的小說。他的另外兩本小說《 Class Trip 》及《 The Adversary 》曾分別被葛羅特.米勒及妮歌.加西亞兩位導演改編成電影並先後成為康城影展的參選影片。在本片中,因為男人的妻子和老友否認他曾經蓄鬍子而令整個故事維持在緊張的氣氛中。
喜歡結局完整的觀眾可能會感到不高興,但欣賞引人入勝的故事和精湛演技的觀眾則會看得津津有味。本片在康城影展的導演雙週中奪得歐洲電影標籤大獎。
Source: The 34th French Cinepanorama, Hong Kong。