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 own 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?
Screenplay: Emmanuel Carrère, Jérôme Beaujour
Cinematography: Patrick Blossier
Editing: Camille Cotte
Music: Philip Glass
Sound: Laurent Poirier
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Hippolyte Girardot, Cylia Malki, Macha Polikarpova, Fantine Camus
Prizes and selections: Festival de Cannes 2005 (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs; Label European Cinemas Award), Chicago International Film Festival 2005 (FIPRESCI Prize), Chlotrudis Awards 2007 (Best Adapted Screenplay: Emmanuel Carrère; Best Actor: Vincent Lindon)
Production:
Les Films des Tournelles
(Paris, T +33 142776234; F +33 142777670; tournelles@tournelles.com)
Pathé Renn Productions
(Paris, T +33 140769100; F +33 145635860)
France 3 Cinéma
(Paris, T +33 153753232; F +33 153762380)
World sales:
Pathé International
(Paris, T +33 171723000; F +33 171723310; sales@patheinternational.fr; www.patheinternational.com)
Villa Medici - 11 Nov, 22.00