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

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

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

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

Spins an agitated mystery well beyond its minimalist starting point, offering up giant questions about sanity and identity on its trip from the bathroom mirror.

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

A deliciously unsettling, beautifully sustained enigma, a film of much beauty and flawless performances, especially from Vincent Lindon in one of his most demanding roles.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 7, 2006

...Recalls the "everyday suspense" films of Roman Polanski and the existential woe of Michelangelo Antonioni.

Full Review | Original Score: B | May 31, 2006

What does it all mean? We are never quite sure. All we learn from this relentless saga of mental and physical solitude are the many varieties of suffering one can endure when one feels alone in the universe.

| May 31, 2006

This narrative feature debut by Emmanuel Carrere, based on his own novel, is deliberately open-ended, but however one interprets the outcome, the film reminds us how fragile intimacy is.

| May 31, 2006

The Moustache provides a feast of sustained tension.

Full Review | May 31, 2006

La Moustache, the first feature by novelist Emmanuel Carrere, begins as a comedy, but grows darker and darker by the frame. It's like a Hitchcock thriller filtered through the mind of Austrian firebrand Michael Haneke, who gave us Cache.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2006

La Moustache dissolves into a meandering annoyance that takes us from Paris to Hong Kong and back again.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 26, 2006

Emmanuel Carrere's psychological mystery is a surreal reflection on perception, reality and memory.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2006

A successful novelist and restrained actor's director, Carrére makes the transformation of a silly marital argument into a cosmic upheaval look easy, and profound as well.

Full Review | May 24, 2006

The film is an unpretentious blank slate--almost totally without point but so unassuming it earns consideration.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 16, 2006

At its most stimulating, Moustache is a keen glimpse into a marriage that appears perfect on the surface but when examined shows its deficiencies.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2005