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One day, thinking that it will make your wife and friends smile, you shave off the moustache that you have had for the last ten years. No one notices or, even worse, everyone pretends not to notice and your smile soon fades. Before being wiped off your face. You insist but people tell you that you've never had a moustache. Are you going mad? Are people trying to make you think you are? Or has something in the world's order gone awry at your expense? Adapting his own 1986 novel, Emmanuel Carrère – whose books Class Trip and The Adversary became Cannes Competition titles by Claude Miller and Nicole Garcia, respectively – provides a feast of sustained tension as the man's wife and his closest friends deny that he ever had a moustache. Viewers who like their conclusions tidy may rebel, but those who relish outstanding performances in the service of an intriguing idea will be entertained. The film won the Label Europa Cinemas Prize at Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. 一天，你滿心以為給妻子和朋友開個玩笑，把蓄了十年的鬍子刮掉。但可惜完全被人忽視了，或更可悲的是每個人都假裝看不到，很快，你得意的笑容不見了，笑臉再也掛不住。你堅持，但所有人都跟你說你從未蓄過鬍子。莫非你神經錯亂？是否所有人都想令你以為自己瘋掉了？又或者，是因為你的緣故而搞亂了世界的某種秩序？ 本片是導演艾曼雷．卡雷爾改編自他自己一九八六年出版的小說。他的另外兩本小說《 Class Trip 》及《 The Adversary 》曾分別被葛羅特．米勒及妮歌．加西亞兩位導演改編成電影並先後成為康城影展的參選影片。在本片中，因為男人的妻子和老友否認他曾經蓄鬍子而令整個故事維持在緊張的氣氛中。 喜歡結局完整的觀眾可能會感到不高興，但欣賞引人入勝的故事和精湛演技的觀眾則會看得津津有味。本片在康城影展的導演雙週中奪得歐洲電影標籤大獎。 Source: The 34th French Cinepanorama, Hong Kong。去年公布动画化的星野亮原作小说《THE THIRD》，目前正式定名为《THE THIRD～苍之瞳的少女》，动画预计在今年4月13日开始播放，并且根据小说的第一卷《THE THIRD～蓝色瞳孔的剑客～》改编，担任动画制作的是制作过《苍穹的法芙娜》的XEBEC。该片和4月档的《凉宫春日》一起，为今年的轻小说改编动画铺路…… 《THE THIRD》是星野亮的长篇奇幻小说，曾经入选1999年的第10回日本奇幻长篇小说大奖。目前已经发行了9卷长篇小说和5卷短篇以及以一位名叫MJ的男子为主人公所描写的《Thethird 0》1卷，长篇小说依然在富士见文库的月刊上连载，小说的插画是由着名的漫画家后藤なお担当。去年公布动画化消息之后，12月开始在月刊《DRAGON AGE》上开始连载漫画，由新人伊藤有子执笔。 一个人能够做什么呢？ 真的可以总是一个人吗？完全想不明白...。