La moustache (2005)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Emmanuel Carrère

Writers:

Jérôme Beaujour (writer)
Emmanuel Carrère (novel)
(more)

Release Date:

6 July 2005 (Belgium)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery

Plot:

Marc is sitting in his bath one morning and asks his wife, "how would you feel if I shaved off my mustache?" She doesn't think it's a great idea...

Plot Keywords:

Mustache | Hong Kong | Shaving | Escape | Bathtub Scene

Awards:

3 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Vincent Lindon	...	Marc Thiriez
Emmanuelle Devos	...	Agnès Thiriez
Mathieu Amalric	...	Serge Schaeffer
Hippolyte Girardot	...	Bruno
Cylia Malki	...	Samira
Macha Polikarpova	...	Nadia Schaeffer
Fantine Camus	...	Lara Schaeffer
Frédéric Imberty	...	Patron café
Brigitte Bémol	...	Policière
Denis Menochet	...	Serveur
Franck Richard	...	Chauffeur taxi
Elizabeth Marre	...	Hôtesse Roissy
Teresa Li	...	Caissière ferry-boat
Au Hin Wai	...	Contrôleur passeport
Kwok Chan Chung	...	Employé aéroport
Perry Siu Fun Ho	...	Marin
Hung Siu	...	Homme tai chi
Hei Poon Yuen	...	Réceptionniste hôtel
Hélène Devynck	...	Amie du casino
Jérôme Bertin	...	Ami du casino
Camille Cotte	...	Opératrice France Télécom (voice)
Pierre Pachet	...	Père de Marc (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Thierry Roland	...	TV soccer commentator (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Directed by
Emmanuel Carrère

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Jérôme Beaujour		writer
Emmanuel Carrère		novel
Emmanuel Carrère		screenplay

Produced by
Romain Le Grand	....	associate producer
Elliot Tong	....	associate producer
Anne-Dominique Toussaint	....	producer

Original Music by
Philip Glass		(musical composition by)

Cinematography by
Patrick Blossier

Film Editing by
Camille Cotte

Casting by
Sylvie Brocheré

Production Design by
Françoise Dupertuis

Costume Design by
Elisabeth Tavernier

Makeup Department
Catherine George	....	key makeup artist
Heidy Chun Sau Ha	....	makeup artist: Hong Kong
Eric Monteil	....	key hair stylist

Production Management
Matthieu Bled	....	post-production manager
Antoine Moussault	....	unit production manager
Paviel Raymont	....	assistant production manager
Philippe Saal	....	production manager
Chan Wan Sze Stanley	....	associate production manager: Hong Kong

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Raphaëlle Bruyas	....	second assistant director
Clothilde Carenco	....	trainee assistant director
Julian Chiu	....	second assistant director: Hong Kong
Claire Galloy	....	assistant director: location unit
Elizabeth Marre	....	first assistant director
Julien Prudhomme	....	third assistant director

Art Department
Cécile Claveries	....	key painter

Sound Department
Christophe Bourreau	....	foley artist
Yannick Coutheron	....	dialogue editor
Emmanuel Croset	....	sound mixer
Vincent Goujon	....	boom operator
Hervé Guyader	....	sound editor
Laurent Poirier	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Bruno Bimbard	....	generator operator
Eric Blanckaert	....	second assistant camera
Alice Capronnier	....	first assistant camera
Mathieu Caudroy	....	Steadicam operator
Nathalie Eno	....	still photographer
Perry Ho	....	best boy grip
Bob Lévy	....	additional grip
Rachid Madaoui	....	gaffer
Olivier Pont	....	video assist operator
Didier Versolatto	....	gaffer

Editorial Department
Mathilde Cousin	....	assistant editor
Aurélie Laumont	....	color timer

Other crew
Samantha Baudier	....	production assistant
Josiane Morand	....	script supervisor
Jake Seal	....	pre-production consultant
Jake Seal	....	production consultant: Hong Kong

Thanks
Nathalie Bloch-Lainé	....	thanks
Jérôme Seydoux	....	thanks

Production Companies

• Les Films des Tournelles
• Pathé Renn Productions (co-production)
• France 3 Cinéma (co-production)
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (participation)
• Cofimage 16 (participation)
• Uni Etoile 2 (participation)
• Région Ile-de-France (participation)
• Procirep (participation)
• Canal+
• Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma
• TPS Star

Distributors

• Pathé (2005) (France) (theatrical)
• Cinema Guild, The (2006) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Cinema Mondo (2006) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Gravitas Ventures (2009) (USA) (video) (VOD)
• Koch Lorber Films (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Pan Vision Oy (2006) (Finland) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Auditel  sound post-production
• DCA Audiovisual  sound transfer
• TEST  titles
• Télétota  sound post-production

Also Known As:

The Moustache (Australia) (TV title)

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | English | Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Brazil:18 | Sweden:7 | Finland:K-7 | Argentina:13 | Hungary:14 | France:U | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva)

Filming Locations:

Aéroport de Paris, Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise, France

Company:

Les Films des Tournelles

Goofs:

Continuity: In several of the scenes it appears that Lindon has a small cut on his forehead - but it keeps disappearing and reappearing randomly.

Bad Hair Day

This movie is a prime example of how the simplest things can mushroom out of control. Architect Marc (Vincent Lindon) has had a moustache since he was knee high to a blueprint and it is, he feels, part of him, then he takes it into his head to speculate on just how much he is identified via the moustache. He starts by asking his live-in lover Agnes (Manu Devos) whether she would still fancy him sans moustache; since she's only known him with it she can't answer. So, out comes the razor and THEN comes the uneasiness that segues into genuine fright. Not only does Devos not notice the difference but neither do their friends and his colleagues at work. We are now on the fringes of a Kafkaesque scenario which isn't really resolved satisfactorily. For reasons that eluded me Marc, by now convinced that Devos has some hidden agenda he can't fathom, lights out for Hong Kong literally in just the clothes he stands up in and spends a few days - weeks, months? - riding the ferry before Devos shows up, or does she? For one thing how did she know where he was and/or track him down to the fleabag where's he's taken a room. Lots of food for thought here and the acting is out of the right bottle if anybody asks you.