Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Markou Abdelaaziz This is a strange story of mental illness (at least that's how I chose to interpret it). A man, Marc, gradually loses his grip on reality after shaving his mustache that was always there as part of his look as a man (or at least he thinks it was). The movie is seen through Marc's perspective which makes it difficult to discern reality from his bouts of schizophrenic hallucinations. At some points the movie reminds me of Lost Highway in the manner with which it represented the split of the protagonist (or rather a metamorphosis) into two different characters. In La Moustache the split happens at the level of the "life" of the protagonist, his world is constantly subjected to transformations, while he more or less stays the same. However in LH we can discern the "true" part of the protagonist from his "imagined" part. That distinction is impossible in La Moustache ; we don't know where his madness starts and where it ends. He is a total mess, and it is upon this ambiguity that everything we see is built.All in all, this movie was a really nice surprise that I highly enjoyed and that I recommend for fans of Lynch, Cronenberg and psychological thrillers/dramas.

classicsoncall I hate to think I wasted an hour and a half watching "La Moustache" but I'm led to that inevitable conclusion. Not that I don't like a puzzler every now and then, but there should be some internal consistency in a picture that brings it all together at the finale. It doesn't have to be a happy or satisfactory one for the characters, but there should be some sort of resolution for the viewer. I can just picture all the critics at Cannes discussing how brilliant this picture is, when in reality, none of them would have had a clue. Another writer on this board, Roger Burke, actually makes a pretty good case for how to decipher this film, and his explanation takes some of the edge off of my feeling about it, but if the picture is that obtuse to the point where I couldn't figure it out myself, then it's really not worth the trouble. And it's not like I wasn't paying attention to the details. For example, during the restaurant scene, there was more wine in the glass the second time Agnes took a drink than the moment before. I'm surprised Marc didn't notice that.

peterlemass This is the first time I've felt compelled to write a review because I feel that watching this movie was a big fat waste of time - and a fairly annoying tedious time at that. If you are wondering whether to spend 1 and a half hours of your life watching this movie - I would recommend against it.Warning spoilers below:He shaves off his moustache. His wife then says he never had one. He has photos to prove he does. He never sits with his wife and shows them to her. He has an ID card and passport which show he has a moustache. He never shows her these either.Then he goes to Hong Kong, on his own and writes his wife a postcard which he doesn't get to post. Next thing we know she has been with him in Hong Kong all along. But the postcard is still in the pocket of the jacket he came in. Instead of showing her this, he throws it away!Are we are supposed to believe it was all a dream?Or is he switching realities?Or is it the writer trying to tell us to accept whatever crazy non-nonsensical reality we find ourselves in without questioning it, as long as there is some saucy french woman to keep us company?The film left me quite unsatisfied and a bit annoyed that I had sat through the whole thing.

board-5 Interesting French drama focusing to a men's relationship with he's wife. SPOILER-Sometimes our self picture is not what other people can see in us.The relationship what this man has seems normal for me.I mean almost all relationship has little problems.This man just can not understand why he's wife ,friends ,work-partners,don't realize he cut down he's fringe.But when he start to make he's relationship better ,in unusual way,the things are start to change.The acting is important in a film like this ,almost the most important,and I think they were enough for this time.Script:The creators did not think you are stupid.So strange but good film.