La moustache (2005)

Director:

Emmanuel Carrère

Writers:

Jérôme Beaujour
Emmanuel Carrère (novel)
(more)

Release Date:

6 July 2005 (Belgium)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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 | Rain | Hong Kong | Escape | Insanity

Awards:

4 wins & 2 nominations

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
Hin-Wai Au	...	Contrôleur passeport
Gary Chung Kuo Chan	...	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
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	....	assistant unit manager
Matthieu Bled	....	post-production manager
Jean-Pierre Giudice	....	unit 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	....	chief 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
Lise Courtès	....	trainee assistant editor
Mathilde Cousin	....	assistant editor
Aurélie Laumont	....	color timer

Other crew
Samantha Baudier	....	production assistant
Cathy Kerbrat	....	production coordinator
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:

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | English | Cantonese

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Brazil:18 | Sweden:7 | Finland:K-7 | Argentina:13 | Hungary:14 | France:U | Portugal:M/12 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva)

Filming Locations:

Aéroport de Paris-Roissy-Charles de Gaulle - BP 20102, 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.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Pack (2010)

absolutely perplexing

The premise for "La Moustache" should be enough to grab the attention of any film fanatic, especially one who gets thrills from the psychological twists perpetrated upon an audience by the likes of Hitchcock and those he inspired. The film begins simply enough with a man in the bath, inquiring of his wife whether or not he should shave off his mustache. Soon enough he's rid himself of that same lip hair, and no one seems to notice. In fact, maybe he never even had the thing in the first place. How genius a premise, right? The minutiae of daily life are oft overlooked subject matter, so it's refreshing to see something so basic given major importance. Things go along smoothly enough as the man starts to come unwound due to this, but then what? By the time the end credits roll, certain thoughts are running wildly through the mind of the audience. It goes back to wondering just how much can be perpetrated upon an audience before they are either too stumped to get it, or too mentally manipulated to care. This is an interesting film worth a peek, and possibly a discussion about its genius or likewise about where it goes sadly astray.