Adapted from a novel by first-time director Carrére, the film retains a literary quality in playing with our faith in the conventions of storytelling and in its sly, understated surrealism.

| Jan 29, 2020

Carrère shows how a minor change can make the world a different place, how it disappears under our feet without our noticing, how glimpses into little truths can make the people around us seem hostile and ultimately drive us mad.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 6, 2010

Those looking for a good thriller should be pleased enough and those seeking a serious art film will get plenty of philosophy with their pretty pictures.

| Mar 1, 2007

Bristling with existential doubt and ennui . . . Carrère's half-nightmare, half-dream vision of one man's imprisonment in his own life remains satisfyingly unresolved and stubbornly unique.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2007

Kafkaesque story of man who shaves trademark moustache. Afterwards everybody--wife included--insists that he has never had one!

| Feb 1, 2007

A dizzying experiment, evocative and frustrating at the same time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2007

As with the recent French films Lemming and The Bridesmaid, La Moustache generates a high level of tension with the most mundane things.

Full Review | Nov 17, 2006

A mind-bending treat adapted by director Emmanuel Carrère from his novel.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 10, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2006

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.'

| Nov 2, 2006

It's a brief, simple film that never overreaches but, if you're into it, it raises fascinating questions about identity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 28, 2006

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2006

I found it mesmerizing from beginning to end.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2006

As intelligently as Carrère handles this material, giving it just the right hint of distance and ambiguity, La Moustache tends to drift toward the mechanisms of the thriller.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2006

The Hitchcock-style story...is intriguing from start to finish, despite the lack of answers to the many questions it raises. And, that ain't shabby.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 3, 2006

An intriguing study of identity, marriage and, perhaps, madness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 1, 2006

Leaps from a gripping identity thriller into a strange yet equally involving adventure about the bounds of self-knowledge and the incredible liberty of disregarding them.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 25, 2006

...a movie about identity and marriage that raises many questions and supplies many answers without actually giving any.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 19, 2006

An elegantly acted psychological puzzle, it's like watching a nervous breakdown from the inside out.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 13, 2006

A profound allegory about the tension between isolation and intimacy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 4, 2006