La Moustache

La Moustache (2005)

  • 85% of critics liked it
    (41 reviews)

  • 62% of users liked it
    (4,049 ratings)

"What would you think if I shaved my moustache?" asks Marc (Vincent Lindon) of his wife, Agnès (Emmanuelle Devos), one fateful night as they prepare to visit friends for dinner. She's never seen him without it, but while she goes to do some last-minute shopping, he impulsively shaves… More

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Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Jérôme Beaujour, Emmanuel Carrère
Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
Oct 7, 2005 Wide
On DVD
Jan 16, 2007
Cinema Guild

Critic Reviews

  • John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press

    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.

  • Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

    In one sense it's what might be called 'typically French,' an exquisitely observed fable of bourgeois life that is mordant, witty and yet low-key. In another sense, it's what might be called 'nuts.'

  • Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

    A shuddery, enigmatic study in psychological suspense.

  • Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

    An absorbing riddle posed in cool, matter-of-fact tones.

  • Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle

    I found it mesmerizing from beginning to end.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Emil K


    For first 10-minutes the idea of this film seems exciting, then it just turns laughably absurd and boring. You cannot blame writer/director Emmanuel Carrere for taking risks, but this story probably works better as short story. Not as a film.

  • Mark A


    This proved to be a strange film that did not tip its hand for this viewer until the end. Marc (Vincent Lindon) shaves his mustache and sets off a sequence of events that leaves him, and this viewer, wondering whether he is going insane, the butt of an elaborate joke, or something… More

  • Walter M


    [font=Century Gothic]In "La Moustache", Marc(Vincent Lindon) and Agnes(Emmanuelle Devos) are a successful couple living in Paris. One day Agnes comments that she would not recognize Marc without his mustache. On a whim, he does shave it off. Later, she does not notice… More

  • Greg A


    What a horrible thing to go through, I questioned if the character Marc was going through the beginning stages of alzheimer's disease because of his lack of memory that never synced up with his wife's. "You didn't even notice I shaved my moustache" "you… More

  • meril l


    Doesn't have to make sense to be absurdly French.

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